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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among
the people, and they bit the people; and much
people of Israel died.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that
goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon
the border of Moab.
16 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:
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19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from
Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 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.
35 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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