21Numbers 21

1And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who 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.Select Numbers 21:1

2And 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.'Select Numbers 21:2

3And 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.Select Numbers 21:3

4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient because of the way.Select Numbers 21:4

5And the people spoke 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.'Select Numbers 21:5

6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.Select Numbers 21:6

7And 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.Select Numbers 21:7

8And 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 seeth it, shall live.'Select Numbers 21:8

9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.Select Numbers 21:9

10And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.Select Numbers 21:10

11And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising.Select Numbers 21:11

12From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.Select Numbers 21:12

13From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the 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;Select Numbers 21:13

14wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,Select Numbers 21:14

15And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —Select Numbers 21:15

16And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'Select Numbers 21:16

17Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —Select Numbers 21:17

18The 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;Select Numbers 21:18

19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;Select Numbers 21:19

20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.Select Numbers 21:20

21And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:Select Numbers 21:21

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 highway, until we have passed thy border.'Select Numbers 21:22

23And 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.Select Numbers 21:23

24And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.Select Numbers 21:24

25And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.Select Numbers 21:25

26For 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 the Arnon.Select Numbers 21:26

27Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established!Select Numbers 21:27

28For 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.Select Numbers 21:28

29Woe 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.Select Numbers 21:29

30We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.Select Numbers 21:30

31Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.Select Numbers 21:31

32And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.Select Numbers 21:32

33And 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.Select Numbers 21:33

34And 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, who dwelt at Heshbon.'Select Numbers 21:34

35So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land.Select Numbers 21:35