Numbers 21

1The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.Cross-references: Num 13:21 · Num 14:45 · Num 33:40 · Deut 2:32 · Josh 7:5 · Josh 11:19 · +3 more

2Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”Cross-references: Gen 28:20 · Lev 27:28 · Deut 13:15 · Josh 6:17 · Josh 6:26 · Judg 11:30 · +6 more

3Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.Cross-references: Num 14:45 · Deut 1:44 · 1Sam 30:30 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 91:15 · Ps 102:17

4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.Cross-references: Ex 6:9 · Num 14:25 · Num 20:18 · Num 20:27 · Num 32:7 · Num 32:9 · +6 more

5The 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, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”Cross-references: Ex 14:11 · Ex 15:24 · Ex 16:2 · Ex 16:7 · Ex 16:15 · Ex 16:31 · +10 more

6Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.Cross-references: Gen 3:14 · Deut 8:15 · Isa 14:29 · Isa 30:6 · Jer 8:17 · Amos 9:3 · +1 more

7The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.Cross-references: Gen 20:7 · Ex 8:8 · Ex 8:28 · Ex 9:27 · Ex 32:11 · Ex 32:30 · +19 more

8Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”Cross-references: Ps 106:43 · Ps 145:8 · John 3:14

9Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:4 · Isa 45:22 · Zech 12:10 · John 1:29 · John 3:14 · John 6:40 · +7 more

10The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.Cross-references: Num 33:43

11They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

12From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.Cross-references: Deut 2:13

13From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.Cross-references: Num 21:14 · Num 22:36 · Deut 2:24 · Judg 11:18 · Isa 16:2 · Jer 48:20

14Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,Cross-references: Josh 10:13 · 2Sam 1:18

15the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”Cross-references: Num 21:28 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:18 · Deut 2:29 · Isa 15:1

16From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”Cross-references: Ex 17:6 · Num 20:8 · Judg 9:21 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 41:17 · Isa 43:20 · +7 more

17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Judg 5:1 · Ps 105:2 · Ps 106:12 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 12:5 · +1 more

18the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;Cross-references: Num 33:45 · Deut 5:31 · Deut 33:4 · 2Chr 17:7 · Neh 3:1 · Neh 3:5 · +4 more

19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.Cross-references: Num 22:1 · Num 23:14 · Num 23:28 · Num 26:63 · Num 33:49 · Deut 1:5 · +3 more

21Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,Cross-references: Num 20:14 · Deut 2:26 · Judg 11:19

22“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”Cross-references: Num 20:17

23Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.Cross-references: Num 20:21 · Deut 2:30 · Deut 29:7 · Judg 11:20 · Isa 15:4 · Jer 48:34

24Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.Cross-references: Gen 32:22 · Num 21:13 · Num 32:1 · Num 32:33 · Deut 2:31 · Deut 3:16 · +12 more

25Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.Cross-references: Num 21:31 · Num 32:33 · Deut 2:12 · Song 7:4 · Isa 15:4 · Isa 16:8 · +7 more

26For 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 to the Arnon.

27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;Cross-references: Num 21:14 · Isa 14:4 · Hab 2:6

28for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.Cross-references: Num 21:15 · Num 22:41 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:18 · Judg 9:20 · Isa 10:16 · +9 more

29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.Cross-references: Judg 11:24 · 1Ki 11:7 · 1Ki 11:33 · 2Ki 23:13 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 16:2 · +4 more

30We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”Cross-references: Gen 49:23 · Num 32:3 · Num 32:34 · Josh 13:17 · 2Sam 11:24 · Ps 18:14 · +4 more

31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Deut 3:16 · Josh 12:1 · Josh 13:8

32Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.Cross-references: Num 32:1 · Num 32:3 · Num 32:35 · Isa 16:8 · Jer 48:32

33They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Deut 1:4 · Deut 3:1 · Deut 4:47 · Deut 29:7 · Deut 32:14 · +10 more

34Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”Cross-references: Num 14:9 · Num 21:24 · Deut 3:2 · Deut 3:11 · Deut 7:24 · Deut 20:3 · +12 more

35So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.Cross-references: Deut 3:3 · Deut 29:7 · Josh 12:4 · Josh 13:12 · Ps 135:10 · Ps 136:17 · +1 more