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Chapter 21

1When the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. 2And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” 3And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction, and the name of the place was called Hormah. 4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5And 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 food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. 10And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth. 11And they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise. 12From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered. 13From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, extending from the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon, 15and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab.” 16And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, so that I may give them water.” 17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it! 18The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people sank it, with the scepter and with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah, 19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, 20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. 21Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink water from a well. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.” 23But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. Gathered together, Sihon went out against Israel in the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong. 25And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and captured all his land as far as the Arnon. 27Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established. 28For fire came out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon. 29Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to an Amorite king, Sihon. 30So we overthrew them; Heshbon as far as Dibon perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah, with fire as far as Medeba.” 31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 34But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.” 35So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left alive of him. And they took possession of his land.