1 Toe die Kanaäniet, die koning van Arad, wat in die Suidland gewoon het, hoor dat Israel met die pad van Atarim kom, het hy teen Israel geveg en sommige van hulle as gevangenes weggevoer.
2 Daarop het Israel aan die HERE 'n gelofte gedoen en gesê: As U hierdie volk heeltemal in my hand gee, sal ek hulle stede met die banvloek tref.
3 En die HERE het gehoor na die stem van Israel en die Kana„niete oorgegee. En hy het hulle en hul stede met die banvloek getref en die plek Horma genoem.
4 Toe trek hulle van die berg Hor af weg op pad na die Skelfsee om die land Edom om te trek; maar die siel van die volk het op die pad ongeduldig geword.
5 En die volk het teen God en teen Moses gespreek: Waarom het U ons uit Egipte laat optrek om in die woestyn te sterwe? Want daar is geen brood en geen water nie, en ons siel walg van die ellendige kos.
6 Toe stuur die HERE giftige slange onder die volk wat die volk gebyt het; en baie mense uit Israel het gesterwe.
7 En die volk het na Moses gekom en gesê: Ons het gesondig dat ons teen die HERE en teen u gespreek het. Bid tot die HERE, dat Hy die slange van ons wegneem. En Moses het vir die volk gebid.
8 Daarop sê die HERE aan Moses: Maak vir jou 'n giftige slang en sit dit op 'n paal; dan sal elkeen wat gebyt is en daarna kyk, lewe.
9 Toe het Moses 'n koperslang gemaak en dit op 'n paal gesit: en as 'n slang iemand gebyt het en hy kyk na die koperslang, het hy in die lewe gebly.
10 En die kinders van Israel het weggetrek en laer opgeslaan in Obot.
11 Daarna het hulle weggetrek van Obot af en laer opgeslaan in Ijje-Ha„b rim in die woestyn wat oostelik aan Moab vas lê.
12 Daarvandaan het hulle weggetrek en laer opgeslaan by die spruit Sered.
13 Daarvandaan het hulle weggetrek en laer opgeslaan oorkant die Arnon wat in die woestyn is en uit die grondgebied van die Amoriete kom; want die Arnon is die grens van Moab, tussen Moab en die Amoriete.
14 Daarom word gesê in die Boek van die Oorloë van die HERE: Waheb in Sufa en die spruite, die Arnon,
15 en die hang van die spruite wat na die streek van Ar afloop en leun teen die grondgebied van Moab.
16 En daarvandaan het hulle na Beër getrek. Dit is die put waarvan die HERE aan Moses gesê het: Laat die volk bymekaarkom, dat Ek vir hulle water kan gee.
17 Toe het Israel hierdie lied gesing: Spring op, o put! Besing hom!
18 o Put wat die vorste gegrawe het, wat die edeles van die volk gedelf het, met die septer, met hulle stawe! -- En uit die woestyn uit na Matt na toe;
19 en van Matt na na Nah liël; en van Nah liël na Bamot;
20 en van Bamot na die dal wat in die veld van Moab lê, by die top van Pisga, en oor die wildernis afkyk.
21 En Israel het boodskappers gestuur na Sihon, die koning van die Amoriete, en gesê:
22 Laat my deur jou land trek. Ons sal nie wegdraai in die lande of in die wingerde nie; ons sal die water van die putte nie drink nie; ons sal die koningsweg hou tot ons deur jou grondgebied getrek het.
23 Maar Sihon het Israel nie toegelaat om deur sy grondgebied te trek nie; maar Sihon het al sy manskappe versamel en uitgetrek na die woestyn, Israel tegemoet; en toe hy by Jahas kom, het hy teen Israel geveg.
24 Maar Israel het hom verslaan met die skerpte van die swaard en sy land in besit geneem van die Arnon af tot by die Jabbok, tot by die kinders van Ammon; want die grens van die kinders van Ammon was sterk.
25 So het Israel dan al hierdie stede ingeneem, en Israel het gewoon in al die stede van die Amoriete, in Hesbon en in al sy onderhorige plekke.
26 Want Hesbon was die stad van Sihon, die koning van die Amoriete; hy het naamlik oorlog gevoer teen die vorige koning van die Moabiete en het die se hele land tot by die Arnon uit sy hand geruk.
27 Daarom sê die spreukdigters: Kom na Hesbon toe! Laat die stad van Sihon gebou en bevestig word!
28 Want 'n vuur het uitgegaan uit Hesbon, 'n vlam uit die vesting van Sihon; dit het Ar van die Moabiete verteer, die bewoners van die hoogtes van Arnon.
29 Wee jou, Moab! Jy is verlore, volk van Kamos! Hy het sy seuns prysgegee as vlugtelinge, en sy dogters in gevangenskap, aan Sihon, die koning van die Amoriete.
30 Toe het ons hulle beskiet; verlore was Hesbon tot by Dibon; en ons het verwoes tot by Nofag, met vuur tot by Med,ba.
31 So het Israel dan gewoon in die land van die Amoriete.
32 Daarna het Moses gestuur om Ja,ser te bespied, en hulle het sy onderhorige plekke ingeneem, en hy het die Amoriete wat daar was, uit hulle besitting verdrywe.
33 Toe het hulle gedraai en in die rigting van Basan opgetrek. En Og, die koning van Basan, hy en al sy manskappe het hulle tegemoetgetrek na Edr,‹om te veg.
34 Daarop sê die HERE vir Moses: Wees nie bevrees vir hom nie, want Ek het hom en sy hele volk en sy land in jou hand gegee; en jy moet met hom doen soos jy gedoen het met Sihon, die koning van die Amoriete, wat in Hesbon gewoon het.
35 En hulle het hom verslaan en sy seuns en sy hele volk, totdat daar niemand van hom oor was wat vrygeraak het nie; en hulle het sy land in besit geneem.
1 And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.
2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.
3 And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.
4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.
5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.
9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.
10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
11 And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.
12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
13 From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:
14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;
15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.
16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:
18 The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.
23 And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.
25 And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.
26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.
27 So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:
28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.
29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.
31 So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
33 Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.
34 And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon.
35 So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.