Numbers - 21

1 - And when king Arad the Canaanite - - , which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel - came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel - , and took some of them prisoners.

2 - And Israel - vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

3 - And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel - , and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

4 - And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom - : and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

5 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses - , Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt - to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

6 - And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much 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 thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses - prayed for the people.

8 - And the LORD said unto Moses - , Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

9 - And Moses - made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

10 - And the children of Israel - set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

11 - And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab - , toward the sunrising.

12 - From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

13 - From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab - , between Moab - and the Amorites.

14 - Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

15 - And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab - .

16 - And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses - , Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

17 - Then Israel - sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

18 - The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

19 - And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:

20 - And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab - , to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

21 - And Israel - sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

22 - Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.

23 - And Sihon would not suffer Israel - to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel - into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel - .

24 - And Israel - smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

25 - And Israel - took all these cities: and Israel - dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

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 unto Arnon.

27 - Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

28 - For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab - , and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

29 - Woe to thee, Moab - ! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 - We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

31 - Thus Israel - dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

32 - And Moses - sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

33 - And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.

34 - And the LORD said unto Moses - , Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

35 - So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.