From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for February 20   
      
   Numbers Chapter 21   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the   
   people; and much people of Israel died.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.   
      
   11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the   
   wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.   
      
   12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.   
      
   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.   
      
   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,   
      
   15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of   
   Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.   
      
   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.   
      
   17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:   
      
   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:   
      
   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.   
      
   21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the   
   city of Sihon be built and prepared:   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.   
      
   32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof,   
   and drove out the Amorites that were there.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was   
   none left him alive: and they possessed his land.   
      
   Numbers Chapter 22   
      
   1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of   
   Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.   
      
   2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.   
      
   3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and   
   Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.   
      
   4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick   
   up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the   
   field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.   
      
   5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor,   
   which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call   
   him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they   
   cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:   
      
   6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are   
   too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them,   
   and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou   
   blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.   
      
   7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the   
   rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and   
   spake unto him the words of Balak.   
      
   8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you   
   word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab   
   abode with Balaam.   
      
   9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?   
      
   10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath   
   sent unto me, saying,   
      
   11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face   
   of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to   
   overcome them, and drive them out.   
      
      
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