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          DASV: Numbers 21    

1 When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev heard
that Israel was approaching by the road to Atharim, 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 our hand, then we will
totally destroy their cities."
3 The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and handed over
the Canaanites; and they totally destroyed them and their towns.
So the name of the place was called Hormah (destruction).

4 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea,
to go around the land of Edom. But the people became impatient
because of the way.
5 The people complained against God and 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 we detest this disgusting food."
6 So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people,
and they bit the people and many people of Israel died.
7 Then the people came to Moses, and confessed, "We have sinned,
because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you.
Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us."
So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous snake, and hang it
on a pole and everyone who is bitten will look at it and live."
9 So Moses made a snake of bronze, and hung it on a pole and if
anyone was bitten by a snake, when he looked at the bronze snake,
he lived.

10 The Israelites journeyed on and camped in Oboth.
11 They journeyed on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the
wilderness on the border of Moab toward the sunrise.
12 From there they journeyed on and camped in the valley of Zered.
13 From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of
the Arnon gorge, which is in the wilderness that extends to the
borders of the Amorites. The Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
14 This is why it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD,
"Waheb in Suphah and the ravines. The Arnon river,
15 and the slope of the valleys that extends to the settlement
of Ar and lies along the border of Moab."
16 From there they continued to Beer that is the well where
the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together,
and I will give them water."
17 Then Israel sang this song:
      "Spring up, O well; sing to it!
18       The well, which the princes dug,
      which the leaders of the people opened,
          with their scepters,
      and with their staves."
From the wilderness they journeyed on to Mattanah;
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the region of Moab,
to the top of Pisgah that overlooks 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 aside
into field or vineyard. We will not drink water from any wells.
We will travel on the King's Highway, until we have passed
through your territory."
23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his
territory. Instead Sihon gathered all his people together
and went out against Israel in the wilderness and came to Jahaz,
where he fought against Israel.
24 But Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword,
and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok
valley, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites
was strongly fortified.
25 So Israel took all these cities and Israel settled in all
the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorites.
He had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken
all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon gorge.
27 That is why those who pronounce oracles say,
      "Come to Heshbon;
      Let it be built.
         Let the city of Sihon be established.
28       For a fire went out from Heshbon,
          a flame from the city of Sihon.
      It has consumed the town of Ar in Moab,
          and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.
29       Woe to you, Moab!
          You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh!
      He has made his sons as fugitives,
          and his daughters as captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30      But we have overthrown them,
          Heshbon's rule has perished as far as Dibon.
     We have laid them waste all the way to Nophah,
          which reaches to Medeba."
31 So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
32 Moses sent spies out to Jazer; and the Israelites captured
its towns and drove out the Amorites who were there.

33 Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. Now Og
the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people,
to do battle at Edrei.
34 The LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him for I have delivered
him into your hand, along with all his people and his land,
and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon."
35 So they killed him, his sons and all his people,
until there were no survivors left and they possessed
his land.

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