Numbers 21
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And the Canaanite -- king Arad -- dwelling in the south, heareth that Israel hath come the way of the Atharim, and he fighteth against Israel, and taketh [some] of them captive.
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And Israel voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, `If Thou dost certainly give this people into my hand, then I have devoted their cities;'
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and Jehovah hearkeneth to the voice of Israel, and giveth up the Canaanite, and he devoteth them and their cities, and calleth the name of the place Hormah.
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And they journey from mount Hor, the way of the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom, and the soul of the people is short in the way,
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and the people speak against God, and against Moses, `Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to die in a wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul hath been weary of this light bread.'
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And Jehovah sendeth among the people the burning serpents, and they bite the people, and much people of Israel die;
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and the people come in unto Moses and say, `We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, and He doth turn aside from us the serpent;' and Moses prayeth in behalf of the people.
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Make for thee a burning [serpent], and set it on an ensign; and it hath been, every one who is bitten and hath seen it -- he hath lived.
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And Moses maketh a serpent of brass, and setteth it on the ensign, and it hath been, if the serpent hath bitten any man, and he hath looked expectingly unto the serpent of brass -- he hath lived.
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And the sons of Israel journey, and encamp in Oboth.
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And they journey from Oboth, and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the wilderness that [is] on the front of Moab, at the rising of the sun.
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From thence they have journeyed, and encamp in the valley of Zared.
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From thence they have journeyed, and encamp beyond Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness which is coming out of the border of the Amorite, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite;
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therefore it is said in a book, `The wars of Jehovah,' -- `Waheb in Suphah, And the brooks of Arnon;
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And the spring of the brooks, Which turned aside to the dwelling of Ar, And hath leaned to the border of Moab.'
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And from thence [they journeyed] to Beer; it [is] the well [concerning] which Jehovah said to Moses, `Gather the people, and I give to them -- water.'
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Then singeth Israel this song, concerning the well -- they have answered to it:
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`A well -- digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.' And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,
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and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
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and from Bamoth in the valley which [is] in the field of Moab [to] the top of Pisgah, which hath looked on the front of the wilderness.
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And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorite, saying,
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`Let me pass through thy land, we do not turn aside into a field, or into a vineyard, we do not drink waters of a well; in the king's way we go, till that we pass over thy border.'
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And Sihon hath not suffered Israel to pass through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and cometh out to meet Israel into the wilderness, and cometh in to Jahaz, and fighteth against Israel.
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And Israel smiteth him by the mouth of the sword, and possesseth his land from Arnon unto Jabbok -- unto the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon [is] strong.
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And Israel taketh all these cities, and Israel dwelleth in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages;
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for Heshbon is a city of Sihon king of the Amorite, and he hath fought against the former king of Moab, and taketh all his land out of his hand, unto Arnon;
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therefore those using similes say -- `Enter ye Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,
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For fire hath gone out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon, It hath consumed Ar of Moab, Owners of the high places of Arnon.
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Wo to thee, O Moab, Thou hast perished, O people of Chemosh, He hath given his sons who escape -- Also his daughters -- Into captivity, to a king of the Amorite -- Sihon!
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And we shoot them, Perished hath Heshbon unto Dibon, And we make desolate unto Nophah, Which [is] unto Medeba.'
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And Israel dwelleth in the land of the Amorite,
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and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who [is] there,
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and turn and go up the way of Bashan, and Og king of Bashan cometh out to meet them, he and all his people, to battle, [at] Edrei.
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon.'
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And they smite him, and his sons, and all his people, until he hath not left to him a remnant, and they possess his land.
Arcana Coelestia # 7671
7671. Verses 12-15 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, and they will come up over the land of Egypt and devour every plant in the land, all that the hail has left. And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind into the land the whole of that day and the whole night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt, and rested at all the border of Egypt; they were extremely severe. Before them there were no such locusts like them, and there will not be such after them. And they covered the surface of the whole land, and the land was darkened; and they devoured every plant in the land and all the fruit on the trees which the hail had caused to be left. And there was not left any green on tree and on plant of the field in the whole land of Egypt.
'And Jehovah said to Moses' means instruction. 'Stretch out your hand' means an exercising of power. 'Over the land of Egypt for the locusts' means in order that falsity may take possession of the whole natural of the molesting ones. 'And they will come up over the land of Egypt' means an outpouring into everything there. 'And devour every plant in the land' means the total consumption of all truth. 'All that the hail has left' means which the previous falsity has not consumed. 'And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt' means exercising the power of God's truth over the entire natural of the molesting ones. 'And Jehovah brought an east wind' means an agent of destruction. 'The whole of that day and the whole of that night' means all the perception, both that which was darkened and that which was not darkened, of the molesting ones. 'Morning came' means the state of heaven in rearranged order. 'And the east wind brought the locusts' means massive falsity present with the molesting ones, brought by the agent of destruction. 'And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt' means the outpouring of falsity into everything in the natural. 'And rested at all the border of Egypt' means at the outermost parts there. 'They were extremely severe' means that they penetrated every single part. 'Before them there were no such locusts like them, and there will not be such after them' means that no such falsity has existed since the Church first began, and such will not exist again. 'And they covered the surface of the whole land' means that they took possession of the last and lowest levels of the natural mind. 'And the land was darkened' means that falsity was introduced where there had been truth. 'And they devoured every plant in the land' means that it consumed every known fact about truth. 'And all the fruit on the trees' means every recognition of good. 'And they did not allow any green to be left' means the obliteration of every sensory apprehension of truth. 'On tree and on plant of the field' means belonging to the things the Church recognized and knew. 'In the whole land of Egypt' means on every side in the natural.
