While your army traveled forward, I sent the Hornet [75] ahead of them. The hornet made the people leave. So you took the land [76] without using your swords and bows.
I will send the hornet [154] in front of you. He will force your enemies to leave. The Hivite people, the Canaanite people, and the Hittite people will leave your country.
Moses sent some men to look at the town of Jazer. After Moses did this, the people of Israel captured that town. They captured the small towns that were around it. The people of Israel forced the Amorite people who were living there to leave.
Moses gave them these laws while they were on the east side of the Jordan River, in the valley across from Beth Peor. They were in the land of Sihon, the Amorite king that lived at Heshbon. (Moses and the people of Israel had defeated Sihon when they came out of Egypt.
We are afraid because we have heard about the ways that the Lord helped you. We heard that he dried the water at the Red Sea when you came out of Egypt. We also heard what you did to the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og. We heard how you destroyed those kings living east of the Jordan River.