English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 21, verse 79 in Hcsb Version

Numbers 21 : 1 (HCSB)

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming on the Atharim road, he fought against Israel and captured some prisoners.

Numbers 21 : 2 (HCSB)

Then Israel made a vow to the LORD, "If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities."

Numbers 21 : 3 (HCSB)

The LORD listened to Israel's request, the Canaanites were defeated, and Israel completely destroyed them and their cities. So they named the place Hormah.

Numbers 21 : 4 (HCSB)

Then they set out from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to bypass the land of Edom, but the people became impatient because of the journey.

Numbers 21 : 5 (HCSB)

The people spoke against God and Moses: "Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!"

Numbers 21 : 6 (HCSB)

Then the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

Numbers 21 : 7 (HCSB)

The people then came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so that He will take the snakes away from us." And Moses interceded for the people.

Numbers 21 : 8 (HCSB)

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake *image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.

Numbers 21 : 9 (HCSB)

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.

Numbers 21 : 10 (HCSB)

The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

Numbers 21 : 11 (HCSB)

They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.

Numbers 21 : 12 (HCSB)

From there they went and camped at Zered Valley.

Numbers 21 : 13 (HCSB)

They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon *River , in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites.

Numbers 21 : 14 (HCSB)

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the LORD's Wars: Waheb in Suphah and the ravines of the Arnon,

Numbers 21 : 15 (HCSB)

even the slopes of the ravines that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.

Numbers 21 : 16 (HCSB)

From there *they went to Beer, the well the LORD told Moses about, "Gather the people so I may give them water."

Numbers 21 : 17 (HCSB)

Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, well-- sing to it!

Numbers 21 : 18 (HCSB)

The princes dug the well; The nobles of the people hollowed it out with a scepter and with their staffs. *They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

Numbers 21 : 19 (HCSB)

from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

Numbers 21 : 20 (HCSB)

from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.

Numbers 21 : 21 (HCSB)

Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:

Numbers 21 : 22 (HCSB)

"Let us travel through your land. We won't go into the fields or vineyards. We won't drink *any well water. We will travel the King's Highway until we have traveled through your territory."

Numbers 21 : 23 (HCSB)

But Sihon would not let Israel travel through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 21 : 24 (HCSB)

Israel struck him with the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, *but only up to the Ammonite border, because it was fortified.

Numbers 21 : 25 (HCSB)

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21 : 26 (HCSB)

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken control of all his land as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 21 : 27 (HCSB)

Therefore the poets say: Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

Numbers 21 : 28 (HCSB)

For fire came out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of Arnon's heights.

Numbers 21 : 29 (HCSB)

Woe to you, Moab! You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon the Amorite king.

Numbers 21 : 30 (HCSB)

We threw them down; Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon. We caused desolation as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.

Numbers 21 : 31 (HCSB)

So Israel lived in the Amorites' land.

Numbers 21 : 32 (HCSB)

After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 21 : 33 (HCSB)

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against them with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

Numbers 21 : 34 (HCSB)

But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon."

Numbers 21 : 35 (HCSB)

So they struck him, his sons, and his whole army until no one was left, and they took possession of his land.