"Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon,…" — Nehemiah 9:22

Nehemiah 9:22 · KJV

“Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.”

— Nehemiah 9:22

Verse 21

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, {so that} they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Verse 23

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess {it}.

Nehemiah 9 — Context

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, {so that} they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess {it}.

So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. {as they...: Heb. according to their will}

Cross References

Numbers 21:21-35

And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Psalms 135:10-12

Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

Psalms 136:17-22

To him which smote great kings: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:

Deuteronomy 2:26-36

And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Deuteronomy 3:1-17

Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, {and} were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: {they were} more which died with hailstones than {they} whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Psalms 105:44

And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;