아모리 족속 은 가나안 땅에 있던 이방민족 중 하나이다.
Canaan 이 조상이다.
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
16 17 the Hivites , the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites , and the Hamathites . Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
하사손다말 이 근거지였던 것으로 보인다.
They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh ), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites , that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
출애굽 당시 이스라엘 민족이 아모리 족속의 땅을 지나기 위해 당시 왕
Sihon 에게 통과를 허락해달라고 요청했는데, 시혼은 오히려 병사를 끌고 와 공격을 했다. 이 때 이스라엘 민족에게 패하여 시혼도 죽임을 당하게 된다.
21 22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz . He fought against Israel.
24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok , even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon , and in all its villages.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon .
26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,
29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir , and the Moabites who dwell in Ar , did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
31 Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz .
33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
35 Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon , and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.