Numbers Chapter 21

Numbers Chapter 21
1 When King Arad the Canaanite, which
dwelt toward the south, heard tell that
Israel came by the way of the spies, then
fought he against Israel, and took of them
prisoners.
2 So Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord,
and said, If thou wilt deliver and give
this people into mine hand, then I will
utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the
Lord heard the voice of Israel, and
delivered them the Canaanites: and they
utterly destroyed them and their cities,
and called the name of the place
Hormah.
4 After, they departed from the mount
Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to
compass the land of Edom: and the
people were sore grieved because of the
way.
5 And the people spake against God and
against Moses, saying, Wherefore have
ye brought us out of Egypt, to die in the
wilderness? For here is neither bread
nor water, and our soul loatheth this light
bread.
6 Wherefore the Lord sent fiery serpents
among the people, which stung 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
thee: pray to 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 up for a
sign, 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 thence, and
pitched in Oboth. 11 And they departed
from Oboth, and pitched in Lje-abarim,
in the wilderness, which is before Moab
on the east side.
12 They removed thence, and pitched
upon the river of Zared.
13 Thence they departed, and pitched on
the other side of Arnon, which is in the
wilderness, and cometh out of the coasts
of the Amorites: (for Arnon is the border
of Moab, between the Moabites and the
Amorites)
14 Wherefore 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
goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and
lieth upon the border of Moab.
16 And from thence they turned to Beer:
the same is the well where the Lord said
unto Moses, Assemble the people, and I
will give them water. 17 Then Israel
sang this song, Rise up well, sing ye unto
it.
18 The princes digged this well, the
captains of the people digged it, even the
lawgiver, with their staves. 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 looketh toward Jeshimon.
21 Then Israel sent messengers unto
Sihon, King of the Amorites, saying, 22
Let me go through thy land: we will not
turn aside into the fields, nor into the
vineyards, neither drink of the waters of
the wells: we will go by the king’s way,
until we be past thy country.
23 But Sihon gave Israel no license to
pass through his country, but 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 smote him with the edge of
the sword, and conquered 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
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, which had
fought beforetime against the king of the
Moabites, and had taken all his land out
of his hand, even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in
proverbs, say, Come to Heshbon, let the
city of Sihon be built and repaired:
28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon,
and a flame from the city of Sihon, and
hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and
the lords of Bamoth in Arnon. 29 Woe
be to thee, Moab: O people of Chemosh,
thou art undone: he hath suffered his sons
to be pursued, and his daughters to be in
captivity to Sihon the king of the
Amorites.
30 Their empire is lost from Heshbon
unto Dibon, and we have destroyed them
unto Nophah, which reacheth unto
Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the
Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to search out Jaazer,
and they took the towns belonging
thereto, and rooted out the Amorites that
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
unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have
delivered him into thine hand and all his
people, and his land: and thou shalt do to
him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of
the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 They smote him therefore, and his
sons, and all his people, until there was
none left him: so they conquered his
land.