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Chapter 21 |
| 1 | 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | And the LORD
sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people
of Israel died. |
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7 | 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. |
| 8 |
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. |
| 9 | 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: |
| 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, |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of
Sihon be built and prepared: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people,
until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land. |
