Numbers 21 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the [branch of the] Red Sea [called the Gulf of Aqabah], to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient, because [of the challenges] of the journey.

Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped at Oboth.

“[fn]Waheb in [fn]Suphah,

And the [fn]wadis of the Arnon [River],

And the slope of the wadis

That stretches toward the site of Ar

And leans to the border of Moab.”

From there the Israelites went on to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”

Then Israel sang this song,

“Spring up, O well! Sing to it,

The well which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people hollowed out

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness Israel journeyed to Mattanah,

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

“Come to Heshbon,

Let the city of Sihon be built and established.

“For fire has gone out of Heshbon,

A flame from the city of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab

And the lords of the heights of the Arnon.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, Moab!

You are destroyed, O people of [the god] Chemosh!

Moab has given his sons as fugitives [that is, survivors of battle],

And his daughters into captivity

To Sihon king of the Amorites.

“We have shot them down [with arrows];

Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon,

And we have laid them waste as far as Nophah,

Which reaches to Medeba.”

Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.

Then 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 battle at Edrei.