Daily Meditation
17 Then Israel sang
this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
Today’s Reading
Numbers
Chapter 21
I have delivered him
into thy hand
1 And when king Arad
the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way
of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. 2
And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver
this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the
Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and
they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the
place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed
from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the
soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people
spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of
Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any
water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents
among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take
away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said
unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall
come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall
live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon 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 And the children
of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And they journeyed from Oboth,
and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the
sunrising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. 13
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in
the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the
border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is said in the
book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of
Arnon, 15 and at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of
Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab. 16 And from thence they went to Beer:
that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together,
and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel sang
this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: 18 the princes digged the well, the
nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: 19 and from Mattanah to
Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: 20 and from Bamoth in the valley, that
is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent
messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy
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 be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass
through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out
against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against
Israel. 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his
land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of
the children of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities: and
Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the
villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his
land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs
say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 28 for
there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath
consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to thee,
Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that
escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. 30
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid
them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt
in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took
the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
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