| 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. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
| 35 | So they smote him, and his
sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they
possessed his land. |
