211 When the Canaanite , the king of Arad , who lived in the Negev , heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim , then he fought against Israel and took some of them captive . 2 So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said , "If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand , then I will utterly destroy their cities ." 3 The Lord heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites ; then they utterly destroyed them and their cities . Thus the name of the place was called Hormah .
4 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red e Sea , to go around the land of Edom ; and the people became impatient because of the journey . 5 The people spoke against God and 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 miserable food ." 6 The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people , so that many people of Israel died . 7 So the people came to Moses and said , "We have sinned , because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord , that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people . 8 Then the Lord said to Moses , "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard ; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten , when he looks at it, he will live ." 9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard ; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man , when he looked to the bronze serpent , he lived .
10 Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped in Oboth . 11 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim , in the wilderness which is opposite e Moab , to the east e . 12 From there they set out and camped in Wadi Zered . 13 From there they journeyed and camped 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 . 14 Therefore e it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord , "Waheb in Suphah , And the wadis of the Arnon , 15 And the slope of the wadis That extends to the site of Ar , And leans to the border of Moab ." 16 From there they continued to Beer , that is the well where the Lord said to Moses , "Assemble the people , that I may give them water ." 17 Then Israel sang this song : "Spring up, O well ! Sing to it! 18 "The well , which the leaders sank , Which the nobles of the people dug , With the scepter and with their staffs ." And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah , 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel , and from Nahaliel to Bamoth , 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab , at the top of Pisgah which overlooks e e the wasteland .
21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon , king of the Amorites , saying , 22 " Let me pass through your land . We will not turn off into field or vineyard ; we will not drink water from wells . We will go by the king's highway until e we have passed through your border ." 23 But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border . So Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness , and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel . 24 Then Israel struck him with the edge of the sword , and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok , as far as the sons of Ammon ; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer . 25 Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites , in Heshbon , and in all her villages . 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon , king of the Amorites , who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand , as far as the Arnon . 27 Therefore e those who use proverbs say , "Come to Heshbon ! Let it be built ! So let the city of Sihon be established . 28 " For a fire went forth from Heshbon , A flame from the town of Sihon ; It devoured Ar of Moab , The dominant heights of the Arnon . 29 " Woe to you, O Moab ! You are ruined , O people of Chemosh ! He has given his sons as fugitives , And his daughters into captivity , To an Amorite king , Sihon . 30 "But we have cast them down , Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon , Then we have laid waste even to Nophah , Which reaches to Medeba ."
31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites . 32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer , and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there . 33 Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan , and Og the king of Bashan went out with all his people , for battle at Edrei . 34 But 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 ." 35 So they killed him and his sons and all his people , until there was no remnant left him; and they possessed his land .
