Quotes About History

Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

Next will be the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the Benjamites is Abidan son of Gideoni,

This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.

and the leader of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the Simeonites, drew near.

Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,

even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.