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1 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, which dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
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 the name of the place was called Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to 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, and there is no 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 And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because 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 standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
10 And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
12 From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.
13 From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border 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, Vaheb in Suphah, And the valleys of Arnon,
15 And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.
16 And from thence they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The well, which the princes digged, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah:
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, until we have passed thy border.
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 came to Jahaz: and he 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 towns 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 ye to Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, 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 as fugitives, 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 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 Jazer, and they took the towns 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 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 remaining: and they possessed his land.
Cross-references
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- 1Num 33:40, Jdg 1:16, Jos 12:14, Num 14:45, Psa 44:3–4, Jos 11:19–20, Num 13:21–22, Jos 7:5
- 2Jdg 11:30, Gen 28:20, 1Sa 1:11, Jos 6:26, Psa 132:2, Deu 13:15, Lev 27:28–29, Psa 56:12–13
- 3Num 14:45, Deu 1:44, 1Sa 30:30, Psa 91:15, Psa 102:17, Psa 10:17
- 4Exo 6:9, Jdg 11:18, Num 32:7, Act 14:22, Num 32:9, Num 33:41, 1Th 3:3–4, Num 14:25
- 5Psa 78:19, Num 16:13–14, Num 16:41, Exo 17:2–3, Exo 14:11, Num 17:12, Num 14:1–4, Exo 16:2–3
- 61Co 10:9, Jer 8:17, Deu 8:15, Amo 9:3–4, Isa 30:6, Isa 14:29, Gen 3:14–15
- 7Act 8:24, Psa 78:34, Exo 8:8, Num 11:2, 1Ki 13:6, Exo 8:28, 1Sa 12:19–23, Job 42:8
- 8Jhn 3:14, Psa 106:43–45, Psa 145:8
- 9Jhn 3:14–15, Heb 12:2, Jhn 6:40, 2Ki 18:4, Jhn 12:32, Isa 45:22, Rom 8:3, 2Co 5:21
- 10Num 33:43–45
- 12Deu 2:13–14
- 13Jdg 11:18, Num 22:36, Deu 2:24, Jer 48:20, Num 21:14, Isa 16:2
- 14Jos 10:13, 2Sa 1:18
- 15Deu 2:9, Deu 2:18, Num 21:28, Deu 2:29, Isa 15:1
- 16Num 20:8, Isa 12:3, Jdg 9:21, Isa 41:17–18, Rev 21:6, Exo 17:6, Rev 22:17, Rev 22:1
- 17Jas 5:13, Jdg 5:1, Exo 15:1–2, Isa 12:5, Isa 12:1–2, Psa 105:2, Psa 106:12
- 18Isa 33:22, 1Ti 6:17–18, Jas 4:12, 2Ch 17:7–9, Deu 5:31, Deu 33:4, Jhn 1:17, Neh 3:5
- 20Num 23:28, Num 26:63, Num 22:1, Num 33:49–50, Deu 1:5, Deu 4:49, Num 23:14, Deu 34:1
- 21Num 20:14–19, Jdg 11:19–21, Deu 2:26–28
- 22Num 20:17
- 23Jdg 11:20, Deu 29:7–8, Jer 48:34, Deu 2:30–32, Isa 15:4, Num 20:21
- 24Amo 2:9, Gen 32:22, Neh 9:22, Psa 136:19, Jos 24:8, Deu 3:16, Psa 135:10–12, Num 32:1–4
- 25Num 32:33–42, Ezk 16:53, Isa 16:8–9, Ezk 16:46, Amo 2:10, Deu 2:12, Jer 48:45, Jer 48:34
- 27Isa 14:4, Hab 2:6, Num 21:14
- 28Num 21:15, Jer 48:45–46, Num 22:41, Amo 1:12, Jdg 9:20, Isa 15:1–2, Isa 10:16, Amo 1:10
- 292Ki 23:13, Jer 48:46, Jdg 11:24, 1Ki 11:33, 1Ki 11:7, Jer 48:7, 1Co 8:4–5, Jer 48:13
- 30Jer 48:18, Isa 15:2, Jer 48:22, Num 32:3, Jos 13:17, Num 32:34, Isa 15:9, Psa 18:14
- 31Jos 13:8–12, Deu 3:16–17, Num 32:33–42, Jos 12:1–6
- 32Jer 48:32, Num 32:1, Num 32:35, Isa 16:8–9, Num 32:3
- 33Jos 13:12, Deu 1:4, Deu 29:7, Deu 3:1–6, Deu 32:14, Jos 13:30, Jos 9:10, Amo 4:1
- 34Psa 135:10–11, Num 21:24–25, Jos 8:7, Deu 3:2–3, Isa 41:13, Deu 31:6, Jdg 11:30, Deu 3:11
- 35Jos 13:12, Deu 29:7–8, Jos 12:4–6, Psa 135:10–12, Deu 3:3–17, Rom 8:37, Psa 136:17–21
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Ambassadors, Ammonites, Amorites, Animals, Ar, Arad, Arnon, Bamoth, Beer, Blasphemy, Brazen Serpent, Canaan, Canaanites, Conviction, Dibon, Edrei, Faith, God, Grape, Heshbon, Hor, Hormah, Ije-Abarim, Infidelity, Inhospitableness, Intercession, Israel, Jaazer, Jabbok, Jahaz, Jazer, Jeshimon, Jesus, the Christ, Judgments, Mattanah, Medeba, Miracles, Moabites, Moses, Murmuring, Nahaliel, Nophah, Oboth, Og, Pisgah, Plague, Presumption, Red Sea, Repentance, Roads, Salvation, Serpent, Sihon, Song, Spies, Symbols and Similitudes, Thankfulness, Types, Zared