Numbers 21
Revised Geneva Translation
21 When King Arad the Canaanite (who dwelt toward the south) heard that Israel came by the way of the spies, then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.
2 So Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will deliver and give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
3 And the LORD heard the voice of Israel and delivered the Canaanites. And they utterly destroyed them and their cities and called the name of the place, Hormah.
4 Afterward, they departed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to surround the land of Edom. And the soul of the people became very discouraged along the way.
5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have You brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.”
6 Therefore the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people, so that many of the people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned. For we have spoken against the LORD and against You. Pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make yourself a fiery serpent; and set it up for a sign, so that as many as are bitten may look upon it and live.”
9 So Moses made a serpent of brass and set it up for a sign. And when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brass and lived.
10 And the children of Israel departed from there and pitched in Oboth.
11 And they departed from Oboth and pitched in Ije Abarim, in the wilderness (which is before Moab, on the east side).
12 They moved from there and pitched upon the river of Zared.
13 They departed from there and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness and comes out of the borders of the Amorites (for Arnon is the border of Moab, between the Moabites and the Amorites).
14 Therefore it shall be spoken in the Book of the Battles of the LORD what thing He did in the Red Sea, and in the rivers of Arnon,
15 and at the stream of the rivers that go down to the dwelling of Ar and lie upon the border of Moab.
16 And from there they turned to Beer, where the well is that the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people and I will give them water.”
17 Then Israel sang this song, “Rise up, well! All of you sing it!
18 “The Princes dug this well! The captains of the people dug it, even the lawgiver with their sticks!” And from the wilderness they came to Mattanah,
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 and from Bamoth in the valley that is in the plain of Moab to the top of Pisgah that looks toward Jeshimon.
21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
22 “Let me go through your land. We will not turn aside into the fields, nor into the vineyards, nor drink of the waters of the wells. We will go by the king’s way until we are past your country.”
23 But Sihon gave Israel no license to pass through his country. Rather, Sihon assembled all his people and went out against Israel into the wilderness. And he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
24 But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and conquered his land, from Arnon to the Jabbok, up to the children of Ammon (for the border of the children of Ammon was strong).
25 And Israel took all these cities and dwelt 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 previously fought against the king of the Moabites and had taken all his land out of his hand, up to Arnon.
27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs, say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and repaired.
28 “For a fire has gone out of Heshbon—a flame from the city of Sihon—and has consumed Ar of the Moabites and the lords of Bamoth in Arnon.
29 “Woe be to you, Moab! O people of Chemosh, you are undone! He has allowed his sons to be pursued and his daughters to be in captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.
30 “Also, their empire is lost from Heshbon to Dibon. And we have destroyed them to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to search out Jazer. And they took the towns belonging to it and rooted out the Amorites who were there.
33 And they turned and went up toward Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, came out against them—he and all his people—to fight at Edrei.
34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him. For I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”
35 Therefore they struck him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was no one left him. So they conquered his land.
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