Numbers 21:10-23

¹⁰Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and ◄camped/set up their tents► there.

¹¹Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.

¹²From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.

¹³Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon River. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon River is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.

¹⁴That is why in the book called ❛The Book of the Wars of Yahweh❜ it tells about “Waheb town in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon River

¹⁵and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar village on the border of Moab.”

¹⁶From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

¹⁷There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!

¹⁸Sing about this well which our leaders dug; they dug out the dirt with their royal scepters and their walking sticks.” Then the Israelis left that desert and went through Mattanah,

¹⁹Nahaliel, and Bamoth villages.

²⁰Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Mountain rises above the desert.

²¹Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message that they/we gave him:

²²“Allow us to travel through your country. We will stay on the king's highway, the main road that goes from the south to the north, until we have finished traveling through your land. We will not walk through any field or vineyard, or drink water from your wells.”

²³But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelis in the desert. They attacked the Israelis at Jahaz village.