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Numbers Chapter 21

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Numbers 21 begins with Israel defeating the Canaanite king Arad and destroying his cities at Hormah after vowing to the Lord, but the people soon grow impatient and speak against God and Moses, for which the Lord sends fiery serpents; those bitten are healed when they look at the bronze serpent Moses lifts up on a pole. The chapter then traces Israel's journey around Edom, recording the song at the well and the stops from Oboth to the valley of Zered. It closes with Israel's victories over Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan, after which Israel took possession of their lands.

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(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.
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Numbers 33:40Joshua 12:14Judges 1:16Numbers 13:21Numbers 13:22Numbers 14:45Deuteronomy 2:32Joshua 7:5Joshua 11:19Joshua 11:20Psalms 44:3Psalms 44:4

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Numbers 33:40Ephesians 4:11Judges 1:16I Samuel 27:10Ezekiel 20:46II Samuel 17:9

(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.
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Genesis 28:20Judges 11:30I Samuel 1:11II Samuel 15:7II Samuel 15:8Psalms 56:12Psalms 56:13Psalms 116:18Psalms 132:2Leviticus 27:28Leviticus 27:29Deuteronomy 13:15

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I Samuel 1:11II Kings 8:12Genesis 18:28Deuteronomy 7:2Joshua 11:20I Samuel 15:9

(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.
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Psalms 10:17Psalms 91:15Psalms 102:17Numbers 14:45Deuteronomy 1:44I Samuel 30:30

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Judges 1:17Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 4:26I Samuel 15:9Isaiah 34:2

(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.
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Numbers 20:22Numbers 20:23Numbers 20:27Numbers 33:41Numbers 14:25Deuteronomy 1:40Numbers 20:18Numbers 20:19Numbers 20:20Numbers 20:21Deuteronomy 2:5Deuteronomy 2:6

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Exodus 19:20Numbers 20:22Numbers 20:23Numbers 33:37Deuteronomy 32:50II Samuel 8:14

(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.
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Numbers 11:1Numbers 11:2Numbers 11:3Numbers 11:4Numbers 11:5Numbers 11:6Numbers 14:1Numbers 14:2Numbers 14:3Numbers 14:4Numbers 16:13Numbers 16:14

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Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4

(6) And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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Genesis 3:14Genesis 3:15Deuteronomy 8:15Isaiah 14:29Isaiah 30:6Jeremiah 8:17Amos 9:3Amos 9:4I Corinthians 10:9

(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.
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Exodus 9:27Exodus 9:28I Samuel 12:19I Samuel 15:24I Samuel 15:30Psalms 78:34Matthew 27:4Exodus 8:8Exodus 8:28I Kings 13:6Jeremiah 37:3Acts 8:24

(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.
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Psalms 106:43Psalms 106:44Psalms 106:45Psalms 145:8

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Numbers 21:9Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20

(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.
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II Kings 18:4John 3:14John 3:15John 12:32Romans 8:3II Corinthians 5:21Isaiah 45:22Zechariah 12:10John 1:29Hebrews 12:2I John 3:8John 6:40

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Isaiah 27:1Numbers 21:8Exodus 30:18Exodus 38:8I Samuel 17:5I Samuel 17:6

(10) And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
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Numbers 33:43Numbers 33:44Numbers 33:45

(11) And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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Judges 11:18I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(12) From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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Deuteronomy 2:13Deuteronomy 2:14

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Genesis 12:8Genesis 26:17Numbers 21:13Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16

(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.
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Numbers 21:14Numbers 22:36Deuteronomy 2:24Judges 11:18Isaiah 16:2Jeremiah 48:20

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Judges 11:18Judges 11:22Numbers 21:26Isaiah 15:1Jeremiah 48:20I Samuel 22:3

(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,
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Joshua 10:13II Samuel 1:18

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I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19Isaiah 19:7

(15) And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
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Numbers 21:28Deuteronomy 2:9Deuteronomy 2:18Deuteronomy 2:29Isaiah 15:1

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Judges 11:18Isaiah 15:1Joshua 19:12Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:13Numbers 21:13

(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.
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Judges 9:21Numbers 20:8Exodus 17:6Isaiah 12:3Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 41:18Isaiah 43:20Isaiah 49:10John 4:10John 4:14John 7:37John 7:38

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II Kings 4:26Deuteronomy 30:4

(17) Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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Exodus 15:1Exodus 15:2Judges 5:1Psalms 105:2Psalms 106:12Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 12:5James 5:13

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II Kings 4:26Psalms 47:6Exodus 15:1Psalms 96:1Psalms 144:9Revelation 15:3

(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:
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II Chronicles 17:7II Chronicles 17:8II Chronicles 17:9Nehemiah 3:1Nehemiah 3:5I Timothy 6:17I Timothy 6:18Deuteronomy 5:31Deuteronomy 33:4Isaiah 33:22John 1:17James 4:12

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II Kings 4:26Genesis 26:18Genesis 21:30Genesis 26:19Genesis 26:21Genesis 26:22

(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.
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Numbers 22:1Numbers 26:63Numbers 33:49Numbers 33:50Deuteronomy 1:5Numbers 23:14Deuteronomy 3:27Deuteronomy 4:49Deuteronomy 34:1Numbers 23:28

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Zechariah 14:4Numbers 23:28Joshua 15:7I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10

(21) And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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Numbers 20:14Numbers 20:15Numbers 20:16Numbers 20:17Numbers 20:18Numbers 20:19Deuteronomy 2:26Deuteronomy 2:27Deuteronomy 2:28Judges 11:19Judges 11:20Judges 11:21

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Joshua 13:21Judges 11:19

(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.
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Numbers 20:17

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Numbers 20:17II Kings 4:26Esther 8:8Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Proverbs 5:15

(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.
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Deuteronomy 2:30Deuteronomy 2:31Deuteronomy 2:32Deuteronomy 29:7Deuteronomy 29:8Judges 11:20Isaiah 15:4Jeremiah 48:34

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Judges 11:20Joshua 12:5Joshua 13:21Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Numbers 34:6

(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.
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Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:2Numbers 32:3Numbers 32:4Numbers 32:33Numbers 32:34Numbers 32:35Numbers 32:36Numbers 32:37Numbers 32:38Numbers 32:39Numbers 32:40

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Deuteronomy 3:16Joshua 12:2Judges 11:18Judges 3:13Deuteronomy 2:19Judges 11:13

(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.
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Numbers 21:31Numbers 32:33Numbers 32:34Numbers 32:35Numbers 32:36Numbers 32:37Numbers 32:38Numbers 32:39Numbers 32:40Numbers 32:41Numbers 32:42Deuteronomy 2:12

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Nehemiah 11:25Deuteronomy 1:4II Chronicles 28:18Numbers 21:34Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 4:46

(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.
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Numbers 21:13Judges 11:18Joshua 12:2Joshua 13:21Numbers 21:28Jeremiah 48:45

(27) Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
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Numbers 21:14Isaiah 14:4Habakkuk 2:6

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Joshua 13:21Jeremiah 48:45

(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.
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Judges 9:20Isaiah 10:16Jeremiah 48:45Jeremiah 48:46Amos 1:4Amos 1:7Amos 1:10Amos 1:12Amos 1:14Amos 2:2Amos 2:5Numbers 21:15

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Judges 11:18Jeremiah 48:45Numbers 21:13Numbers 21:26Isaiah 15:1Jeremiah 48:20

(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.
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Judges 11:24I Kings 11:7I Kings 11:33II Kings 23:13Jeremiah 48:7Jeremiah 48:13Jeremiah 48:46I Corinthians 8:4I Corinthians 8:5

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Ezekiel 16:53Jeremiah 48:46Numbers 21:13Judges 11:18Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43

(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.
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Genesis 49:23II Samuel 11:24Psalms 18:14Numbers 32:34Joshua 13:17Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 15:9Jeremiah 48:18Jeremiah 48:22

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Isaiah 15:1Ezekiel 6:6

(31) Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
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Numbers 32:33Numbers 32:34Numbers 32:35Numbers 32:36Numbers 32:37Numbers 32:38Numbers 32:39Numbers 32:40Numbers 32:41Numbers 32:42Deuteronomy 3:16Deuteronomy 3:17

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Deuteronomy 1:4

(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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Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:35Isaiah 16:8Isaiah 16:9Jeremiah 48:32

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Nehemiah 11:25Genesis 32:16II Chronicles 28:18

(33) And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
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Deuteronomy 3:1Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 3:3Deuteronomy 3:4Deuteronomy 3:5Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 29:7Joshua 13:12Deuteronomy 32:14Psalms 22:12Psalms 68:15Isaiah 33:9

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Deuteronomy 3:1Joshua 13:30Deuteronomy 3:10Deuteronomy 3:13Deuteronomy 29:7Deuteronomy 1:4

(34) And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
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Numbers 14:9Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 3:11Deuteronomy 20:3Deuteronomy 31:6Joshua 10:8Joshua 10:25Isaiah 41:13Deuteronomy 3:3Deuteronomy 7:24Joshua 8:7Judges 11:30

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Deuteronomy 1:4Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 4:46Joshua 12:2Joshua 13:21Numbers 21:25

(35) So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
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Deuteronomy 3:3Deuteronomy 3:4Deuteronomy 3:5Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 3:7Deuteronomy 3:8Deuteronomy 3:9Deuteronomy 3:10Deuteronomy 3:11Deuteronomy 3:12Deuteronomy 3:13Deuteronomy 3:14

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