Numbers 21

 

Numbers 21

 

1 When king Wild Ass (Arad) the Humbled One (Canaanite), who dwelt in the south, heard that God Prevails (Israel) came by the way of the spies; he fought against God Prevails (Israel), and took some of them, prisoners.

 

2 So God Prevails (Israel) vowed a vow to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) and said: If you will deliver these people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

 

3 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) listened to the voice of God Prevails (Israel), and delivered up the Humbled Ones (Canaanites), and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and they called the name of the place Devotion (Hormah)

 

4 Then they journeyed from The Mountain (Hor) by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Red (Edom): and the soul of the people became very discouraged because of the way.

 

5 Again, the people spoke against God ('Elohiym), and against Drawn (Moses), Why have you brought us up out of Double Straights (Egypt) to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our souls loathe this light bread.

6 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of God Prevails (Israel) died.

 

7 Therefore the people came to Drawn (Moses) and said: We have sinned, for we have spoken against I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and against you; pray to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), that He take away the serpents from us. So Drawn (Moses) prayed for the people.

 

8 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses): Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole It shall come to pass, that everyone who has been bitten, when he looks on it, shall live.

 

9 So Drawn (Moses) made a serpent of brass, and put it on a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

 

10 Then the children of God Prevails (Israel) set forward and pitched in Waterskins (Oboth).

 

11 And they journeyed from Waterskins (Oboth), and pitched at Ruins of Regions Beyond (Ijeabarim), in the wilderness which is before Of His Father (Moab), toward the sun rising.

 

12 From there, they removed and pitched in the valley of Willow/ Osier Brook (Zared).

 

13 They left from there, and pitched on the other side of Rushing Stream (Arnon), which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites): for Rushing Stream (Arnon) is the border of Of His Father (Moab), between Of His Father (Moab) and The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites).

 

14 This is why it is said in the book of the wars of God Prevails (Israel): What He did in the Red Sea and in the brooks of Rushing Stream (Arnon),

 

15 And at the stream of the brook that goes down to the dwelling of City (Ar), and lies on the border of Of His Father (Moab).

 

16 From there, they went to Well (Beer): that is the well that God Prevails (Israel) spoke to Drawn (Moses): Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

 

17 Then God Prevails (Israel) sang this song: Spring up, O well; sing to it:

 

18 The princes dug the well, the nobles of the people dug it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. From the wilderness there, they went to Gift of I AM (Mattanah):

 

19 And from Gift of I AM (Mattanah) to Torrents of God (Nahaliel): and from Torrents of God (Nahaliel) to Great High Place (Bamoth):

 

20 From Great High Place (Bamoth) in the valley, that is in the country of Of His Father (Moab), to the top of Cleft (Pisgah), which looks toward Desolation (Jeshimon).

 

21 God Prevails (Israel) sent messengers to Warrior (Sihon) king of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites), saying:

 

22 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we are past your borders.

 

23 But Warrior (Sihon) would not permit God Prevails (Israel) to pass through his border: instead, Warrior (Sihon) gathered all his people together, and went out against God Prevails (Israel) into the wilderness: and he came to Trodden Down (Jahaz), and fought against God Prevails (Israel).

 

24 Then God Prevails (Israel) smote him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from Rushing Stream (Arnon) to Emptying (Jabbok), even to the children of Tribal (Ammon): for the border of the children of Tribal (Ammon) was strong.

 

25 So God Prevails (Israel) took all these cities: and God Prevails (Israel) dwelt in all the cities of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites), in Stronghold (Heshbon), and in all the villages thereof.

 

26 For Stronghold (Heshbon) was the city of Warrior (Sihon) the king of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites), who had fought against the former king of Of His Father (Moab), and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Rushing Stream (Arnon).

 

27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Stronghold (Heshbon), let the city of Warrior (Sihon) be built and prepared:

 

28 For there is a fire gone out of Stronghold (Heshbon), a flame from the city of Warrior (Sihon): it has consumed City (Ar) of Of His Father (Moab), and God Prevails (Israel) of the high places of Rushing Stream (Arnon).

 

29 Woe to you, Of His Father (Moab)! You are undone, O people of Subduer (Chemosh): he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Warrior (Sihon) king of  The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites).

 

30 We have shot at them; Stronghold (Heshbon) has perished even to Wasting (Dibon), and we have laid them waste even to Blast (Nophah), which reaches to Water of Rest (Medeba).

 

31 Thus God Prevails (Israel) dwelt in the land of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites).

 

32 Then Drawn (Moses) sent to spy out Helped (Jaazer), and they took the villages thereof, and drove out The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites) that were there.

 

33 Then they turned and went up by the way of Fruitful (Bashan): and Long-Necked (Og) the king of Fruitful (Bashan) went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Goodly Pasture (Edrei).

 

34 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Warrior (Sihon) king of The Talkers, Sayers (Amorites), which dwelt at Stronghold (Heshbon).

 

35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.