Israel’s route recounted

14Then Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites.

15And he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the sons of Ammon.”

16For when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness as far as the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

17Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom did not listen. And he also sent to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling, so Israel remained at Kadesh.

18Then he went through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

19Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, “Please let us pass through your land to our place.”

20But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people, and they camped at Jahaz, and he fought against Israel.

21And Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them down. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.

22So they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan.