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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. 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. 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, 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.