Bilangan 21:29-30

21:29 Woe to you, Moab.

You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! ¹ 

He has made his sons fugitives,

and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

21:30 We have overpowered them; ² 

Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.

We have shattered them as far as Nophah,

which ³  reaches to Medeba.”

[21:29]  ¹ sn The note of holy war emerges here as the victory is a victory over the local gods as well as over the people.

[21:30]  ² tc The first verb is difficult. MT has “we shot at them.” The Greek has “their posterity perished” (see GKC 218 §76.f).

[21:30]  ³ tc The relative pronoun “which” (אֲשֶׁר, ’asher) posed a problem for the ancient scribes here, as indicated by the so-called extraordinary point (punta extraordinaria) over the letter ר (resh) of אֲשֶׁר. Smr and the LXX have “fire” (אֵשׁ, ’esh) here (cf. NAB, NJB, RSV, NRSV). Some modern scholars emend the word to שֹׁאָה (sho’ah, “devastation”).