ULT NUM Chapter 21

◄ NUM 21 ► ║ ©

21 And the Canaanite king of Arad, who dwelled in the Negev, heard that Israel had come by the road of the Atharim, and he fought against Israel and took captive some of them as captives. 2 And Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh and said, “If you surely give this people into my hand, then I will dedicate their cities by ban.” 3 And Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites, and he dedicated them and their cities by ban, and he called the name of the place Hormah.

4 And they set out from Mount Hor by the road of the Sea of Reeds to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was short on the road, 5 and the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why did you bring us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul detests the worthless bread.” 6 And Yahweh sent snakes, fiery ones, among the people and they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and may he remove from on us the snake,” and Moses prayed on behalf of the people. 8 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Make for yourself a snake and set it on a pole, and it will happen that any of the bitten will see it and live.” 9 And Moses made a snake of bronze, and he set it on the pole. And it happened that if the snake bit a man, then he looked to the snake of bronze, and he lived.

10 And the sons of Israel set out and camped at Oboth. 11 And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that is on the face of Moab from the rising of the sun. 12 From there they set out and camped at the wadi of Zered. 13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that goes out from the border of the Amorite, because the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. 14 Therefore, it says in the book of the Wars of Yahweh,

“… Waheb in Suphah, and the wadis of the Arnon,

15 and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and it leans to the border of Moab,”

16 and from there to Beer. It is the well where Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people, and I will give water to them.”

17 Then Israel sang this song:

“Rise up, well!

Sing for it,

18 the well leaders dug,

the noblemen of the people dug it,

with a decreer’s staff and their staffs.”

And from the wilderness to Mattanah 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, the head of the Pisgah, and is looking down on the face of the wasteland.

21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorite, saying, 22 “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn into a field or into a vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the road of the king until we have passed through your border.” 23 And Sihon did not give Israel passage through his boundary, and Sihon gathered all his people and went out to the wilderness to meet Israel, and he came to Jahaz and fought with Israel. 24 And Israel struck him by the mouth of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon, because the border of the sons of Ammon was fortified. 25 And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorite in Heshbon and in all its daughters. 26 For Heshbon, it was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorite, and he had fought with the previous king of Moab and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. 27 Therefore the speakers of proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon.

Let the city of Sihon be built and established.

28 For fire went out from Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It ate Ar of Moab,

the lords of the high places of Arnon.

29 Woe to you, Moab!

You have perished, people of Chemosh.

He has given his sons to be escapees

and his daughters into the captivity

of Sihon the king of the Amorites.

30 And we have shot them. Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.

And we have made devastation as far as Nophah,

which is as far as Medeba.”

31 And Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites, 32 and Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured her daughters, and they dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

33 And they turned and went up the road of the Bashan. And Og the king of the Bashan went out to meet them, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 34 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Do not fear him, because I have given into your hand him and all his people and his land, and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorite, who dwelled in Heshbon.” 35 And they struck him and his sons and all his people until they had left no survivor for him, and they took possession of his land.

◄ NUM 21 ► ║ ©

NUM C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36