NITHYAM SONGSNumbers 21
World English Bible (WEB) • 35 verses
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.
RelatedJudges 1:16 · Numbers 33:40 · Joshua 12:14 · Numbers 14:45 · Numbers 13:21-22 · Psalms 44:3-4
2Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
RelatedGenesis 28:20 · Judges 11:30 · Joshua 6:26 · 1 Samuel 1:11 · 2 Samuel 15:7-8 · Leviticus 27:28-29
3The LORD 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.
RelatedNumbers 14:45 · Deuteronomy 1:44 · Psalms 102:17 · 1 Samuel 30:30 · Psalms 91:15 · Psalms 10:17
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.
RelatedExodus 6:9 · Judges 11:18 · Acts 14:22 · Numbers 32:7 · Numbers 33:41 · 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
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!”
RelatedPsalms 78:19 · Numbers 16:41 · Numbers 16:13-14 · Exodus 17:2-3 · Exodus 16:2-3 · Numbers 14:1-4
6The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
Related1 Corinthians 10:9 · Deuteronomy 8:15 · Jeremiah 8:17 · Amos 9:3-4 · Isaiah 30:6 · Isaiah 14:29
7The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
8The LORD 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.”
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.
10The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
RelatedNumbers 33:43-45
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.
RelatedDeuteronomy 2:13-14
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.
RelatedJudges 11:18 · Numbers 22:36 · Jeremiah 48:20 · Isaiah 16:2 · Deuteronomy 2:24 · Numbers 21:14
14Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD , “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
15the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
16From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
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;
RelatedIsaiah 33:22 · Deuteronomy 5:31 · 2 Chronicles 17:7-9 · 1 Timothy 6:17-18 · James 4:12 · Deuteronomy 33:4
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.
RelatedNumbers 23:28 · Deuteronomy 3:27 · Deuteronomy 1:5 · Numbers 22:1 · Numbers 33:49-50 · Deuteronomy 34:1
21Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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.”
RelatedNumbers 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.
RelatedJudges 11:20 · Deuteronomy 29:7-8 · Deuteronomy 2:30-32 · Isaiah 15:4 · Jeremiah 48:34 · Numbers 20:21
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.
25Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
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;
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.
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.
30We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
32Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
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.
RelatedJoshua 13:12 · Deuteronomy 29:7 · Deuteronomy 1:4 · Deuteronomy 3:1-6 · Ezekiel 39:18 · Deuteronomy 4:47
34The LORD 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.”
RelatedPsalms 135:10-11 · Joshua 8:7 · Deuteronomy 3:2-3 · Numbers 21:24-25 · Joshua 10:25 · Judges 11:30
35So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
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