1When King Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt toward the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies, then fought he against Israel, and took of them prisoners.
2So Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver and give this people into mine hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3And the Lord heard the voice of Israel, and delivered them the Canaanites: and they utterly destroyed them and their cities, and called the name of the place Hormah.
4After they departed from the mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the people were sore grieved because of the way.
5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, saying, Wherefore have ye brought us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness, for here is neither bread nor water, and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6Wherefore the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, which stung the people: so that many of the people of Israel died.
7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned: for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us: and Moses prayed for the people.
8And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it up for a sign, that as many as are bitten, may look upon it, and live.
9So Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it up for a sign: and when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brass, and lived.
10And the children of Israel departed thence, and pitched in Oboth.
11And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije Abarim, in the wilderness, which is before Moab on the East side.
12They removed thence, and pitched upon the river of Zared.
13Thence they departed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness, and cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: (for Arnon is the border of Moab, between the Moabites and the Amorites),
14Wherefore it shall be spoken in the book of the battles of the Lord, what thing he did in the red sea, and in the rivers of Arnon,
15And at the stream of the rivers that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
16And from thence they turned to Beer: the same is the well where the Lord said unto Moses, Assemble the people, and I will give them water.
17Then Israel sang this song, Rise up well, sing ye unto it.
18The princes dug this well, the captains of the people dug it, even the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they came to Mattanah,
19And from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the plain of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
21Then Israel sent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
22Let me go through thy land: we will not turn aside into the fields, nor into the vineyards, neither drink of the waters of the wells: we will go by the king’s way, until we be past thy country.
23But Sihon gave Israel no license to pass through his country, but Sihon assembled all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24But Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and conquered his land, from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25And Israel took all these cities, and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, which had fought beforetime against the king of the Moabites, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
27Wherefore they that speak in proverbs, say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and repaired,
28For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the city of Sihon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the lords of Bamoth in Arnon.
29Woe be to thee, Moab: O people of Chemosh, thou art undone: he hath suffered his sons to be pursued, and his daughters to be in captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.
30Their empire also is lost from Heshbon unto Dibon, and we have destroyed them unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
31Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32And Moses sent to search out Jazer, and they took the towns belonging thereto, and rooted out the Amorites that were there.
33And they turned, and went up toward Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he, and all his people, to fight at Edrei.
34Then the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thine hand, and all his people, and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou diddest unto Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35They smote him therefore, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him: so they conquered his land.