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| Numbers 21:1 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:2 |
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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." |
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| Numbers 21:3 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:4 |
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Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way
of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient
because of the journey. |
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| Numbers 21:5 |
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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." |
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The Bronze Serpent |
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| Numbers 21:6 |
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The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people
and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. |
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| Numbers 21:7 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:8 |
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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." |
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| Numbers 21:9 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:10 |
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Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped
in Oboth. |
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| Numbers 21:11 |
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They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim,
in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, to the east. |
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| Numbers 21:12 |
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From there they set out and camped in Wadi Zered. |
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| Numbers 21:13 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:14 |
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Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars
of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, And the wadis of the Arnon, |
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| Numbers 21:15 |
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And the slope of the wadis That extends to the
site of Ar, And leans to the border of Moab." |
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| Numbers 21:16 |
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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." |
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| Numbers 21:17 |
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Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!
Sing to it! |
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| Numbers 21:18 |
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"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, |
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| Numbers 21:19 |
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and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel
to Bamoth, |
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| Numbers 21:20 |
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and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the
land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland. |
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Two Victories |
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| Numbers 21:21 |
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Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of
the Amorites, saying, |
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| Numbers 21:22 |
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"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 we have passed through your border." |
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| Numbers 21:23 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:24 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:25 |
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Israel took all these cities and Israel lived
in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her villages. |
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| Numbers 21:26 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:27 |
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Therefore those who use proverbs say, "Come
to Heshbon! Let it be built! So let the city of Sihon be established. |
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| Numbers 21:28 |
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"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. |
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| Numbers 21:29 |
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"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. |
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| Numbers 21:30 |
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"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." |
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| Numbers 21:31 |
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Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. |
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| Numbers 21:32 |
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Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured
its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. |
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| Numbers 21:33 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 21:34 |
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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." |
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| Numbers 21:35 |
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So they killed him and his sons and all his
people, until there was no remnant left him; and they possessed his land. |
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