Numbers 21 When the Canaanite king of Arad, dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and captured captives from him.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When the Canaanite king of Arad, dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and captured captives from him. ² Then Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD and said, "If thou wilt give this people into our hands, we will destroy their cities." ³ the LORD heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah. ⁴ They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient along the way. ⁵ The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food." ⁶ the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said: "We sinned when we criticized the LORD and you. Pray to the LORD so that he will take the snakes away from us. So Moses prayed for the people." ⁸ the LORD said to Moses: "Make a snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." ⁹ Moses made a copper snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the copper snake after they were bitten and lived. ¹⁰ The Israelites set out and encamped at Oboth. ¹¹ They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab toward the sunrise. ¹² From there they moved, and encamped in the valley of Zared. ¹³ They moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the desert that extends into Amorite territory. The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites. ¹⁴ As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon; ¹⁵ and the slope of the valleys that extend to the town of Ar and toward the border of Moab. ¹⁶ From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water." ¹⁷ Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well. Sing to 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 to Mattanah; ¹⁹ From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth. ²⁰ and from Bamoth in the valley in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah at the face of the desolation. ²¹ Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, ²² "Let us go through your country. We will not go through any of your fields or vineyards or drink any of the water from your wells. We will stay on the king's highway until we have passed through your territory." ²³ Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Sihon gathered all his troops and came out into the desert to attack Israel. When Sihon's troops came to Jahaz, they fought against Israel. ²⁴ Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. ²⁵ Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. ²⁶ For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon. ²⁷ Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established. ²⁸ Because fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. ³⁰ And we shot at them. Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. And we have laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba." ³¹ So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. ³² And Moses sent to spy out Ya’zer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there. ³³ Then they turned and went up by the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle at Edrei. ³⁴ the LORD said to Moses: "Do not fear him for I have given him into your hand, and all his people and his land. You will do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon." ³⁵ So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.