Numbers 20:28   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain,

Numbers 21:1   (Read all of Numbers 21)

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.

Numbers 21:3   (Read all of Numbers 21)

The Lord listened to Israel's plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.

Numbers 21:4   (Read all of Numbers 21)

They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;

Numbers 21:5   (Read all of Numbers 21)

they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"

Numbers 21:6   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.

Numbers 21:7   (Read all of Numbers 21)

The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 21:8   (Read all of Numbers 21)

The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."

Numbers 21:9   (Read all of Numbers 21)

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

Numbers 21:11   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.

Numbers 21:13   (Read all of Numbers 21)

They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Numbers 21:14   (Read all of Numbers 21)

That is why the Book of the Wars of the Lord says: ". . . Zahab in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon

Numbers 21:15   (Read all of Numbers 21)

and the slopes of the ravines that lead to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab."

Numbers 21:16   (Read all of Numbers 21)

From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together and I will give them water."

Numbers 21:17   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing about it,

Numbers 21:18   (Read all of Numbers 21)

about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank- the nobles with scepters and staffs." Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

Numbers 21:21   (Read all of Numbers 21)

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

Numbers 21:23   (Read all of Numbers 21)

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.

Numbers 21:24   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.

Numbers 21:25   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.

Numbers 21:26   (Read all of Numbers 21)

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

Numbers 21:27   (Read all of Numbers 21)

That is why the poets say: "Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt; let Sihon's city be restored.

Numbers 21:28   (Read all of Numbers 21)

"Fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the citizens of Arnon's heights.

Numbers 21:29   (Read all of Numbers 21)

Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.