Numbers 21:18-23

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.