Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
They crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, on the south side of the city, at the wadi of Gad, near Jazer.
I will weep for the grapevines of Sibmah just like the town of Jazer weeps over them. Their branches once spread as far as the Dead Sea. They reached as far as the town of Jazer. The destroyer will ravage her fig, date, and grape crops.
So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.
Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.
I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.