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📚✭And when king Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners. 2 📚And Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you completely deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities”. 3 📚And the LORD listened 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. The bronze snake
4 📚✭And they set out from mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom; and the mind of the people was very vexed on the way. 5 📚✭And 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, and there is no water, and our soul loathes this miserable food”.
6 📚✭And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many 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 you. Pray to the LORD, so that he will take away the serpents from us”. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 📚And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and put it up on a pole. And it will come about that anyone who is bitten will live when he looks at it”. 9 📚And Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and it happened that if a serpent bit anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent he lived.
The journey to Moab
10 📚And the children of Israel set out and camped in Oboth. 11 And they set out from Oboth, and camped at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward sunrise. 12 📚They moved on from there and camped in the valley of Zered. 13 📚They moved on from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon river, in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 📚✭Therefore 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 slope of the ravine that goes down to the site of Ar, and lies on the border of Moab”.
16 📚✭And from there they went to Beer. That is the well about 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 leaders dug the well, the nobles of the people sank it with their staves at 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 that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Jeshimon.
The defeat of Sihon and Og
21 📚✭And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king 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 water of the wells; but we will travel by the king’s highway until we pass through your territory”.
23 📚But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out into the wilderness against Israel; and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 24 📚And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, as far as the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. 25 📚And Israel took all these cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its surrounding villages. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites. He had fought against the former king of Moab and captured all his land from his hand, as far as the Arnon.
27 📚Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
“Come to Heshbon,
let the city of Sihon be built
and established!
28 📚For a fire has gone
out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has consumed Ar of Moab,
and the lords of the high places
of Arnon.
29 📚Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone,
O people of Chemosh✭.
He has given his sons
and his daughters
who escaped into captivity
to Sihon king
of the Amorites.
30 📚But we have overthrown them.
Heshbon is ruined
as far as Dibon,
and we have laid them waste
as far as Nophah,
which reaches to Medeba”.
Israel Conquers Og of Bashan
31 📚So Israel lived in the land
of the Amorites.
32 📚And Moses sent men to spy out Jaazer, and they captured its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33 📚And they turned and ascended by 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 to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon”.
35 📚✭So they struck him down along with his sons, and all his people, until there was none of his left alive; and they took possession of his land.