 1 king Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel came by the Way of the Spies, then he fought against Israel and took prisoners of them. 2 Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will completely destroy their cities. 3 The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites. They completely destroyed them and their cities and he called the name of the place Hormah. 4 They pulled up from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was very discouraged because of the way. 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water. And our soul hates this light bread. 6 The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many people of Israel died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 The Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. When anyone is bitten, when he looks upon it, he will live. 9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole and if a serpent had bitten anyone, when they looked upon the serpent of brass, they lived. 10 The children of Israel pulled up from there and pitched in Oboth. 11 They pulled up from Oboth and pitched at Ijeabarim in the wilderness before Moab toward the sunrising. 12 From there they pulled up and pitched in the valley of Zered. 13 From there they pulled up and pitched on the other side of Arnon, in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorites. For Arnon is in the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, Waheb in Suphah, and in the rivers of Arnon, 15 and at the stream of the rivers that goes down to the dwelling of Ar and lies upon the border of Moab. 16 From there they went to Beer. That is the well of which the Lord spoke 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 that the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves by the Word of the Lawgiver. 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, in the country of Moab, they worked to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward the wilderness. 21 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites saying, 22 Let me pass through your land. We will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards. We will not drink the waters of the well. We will go along by the king's highway until we are past your borders. 23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel in the wilderness. And he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon. For the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25 Israel took all these cities. And Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon. 27 Therefore they who speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and prepared. 28 For there has gone out a fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, Moab. You are undone, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons to be runaways and his daughters to go into captivity to King Sihon of the Amorites. 30 We have cast them down. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid them waste even to Nophah that is to Medeba. 31 So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32 Moses sent to spy out Jaazer and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33 They turned and went by the way of Bashan. King Og of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people to the battle at Edrei. 34 The Lord said to Moses, Do not fear him, for I have delivered him to you, and all his people and his land. You shall do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon. 35 So they struck him and his sons and all his people until there was none left alive. Then they possessed his land.
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