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Numbers 21
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the
dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people,
until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
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