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1 Cuando el rey de Arad que estaba en Néguev, oyó que los israelitas se acercaban (porque estaban siguiendo la misma ruta de los espías), movilizó su ejército y atacó a Israel, y tomó prisioneros a algunos de sus hombres.
1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
2 Entonces el pueblo de Israel hizo voto al Señor que si él les ayudaba a vencer al rey de Arad y a su pueblo, destruirían completamente las ciudades de aquella región.
2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
3 El Señor oyó su petición y derrotaron a los cananeos, y los israelitas destruyeron completamente todas sus ciudades. De ahí en adelante el nombre de la región fue Jormá (Destrucción completa).
3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.
4 El pueblo de Israel regresó al monte de Hor, y desde allí continuó hacia el sur por la ruta del Mar Rojo con el fin de dar un rodeo y pasar por el costado de la tierra de Edom. El pueblo estaba muy desalentado.
4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.
5 Comenzaron a murmurar contra el Señor y a quejarse contra Moisés. ―¿Por qué nos trajiste desde Egipto para morir en este desierto? Aquí no hay nada para comer, nada para beber y ya estamos hastiados de este insípido maná.
5 The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
6 Entonces el Señor los castigó enviando serpientes venenosas, y muchos murieron.
6 Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
7 El pueblo acudió a Moisés y llorando le dijo: ―Hemos pecado, al hablar contra el Señor y contra ti. Ora y pídele que eche de aquí estas serpientes. Moisés entonces oró por el pueblo, y
7 The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
8 el Señor le dijo: ―Haz una serpiente de bronce y átala en un asta de bandera. Quienquiera que haya sido mordido vivirá con sólo mirar a la serpiente de bronce.
8 Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
9 Moisés hizo la serpiente de bronce y todo el que era mordido y miraba a la serpiente de bronce se salvaba.
9 Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
10 A continuación Israel viajó a Obot y acampó allí.
10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
11 Luego siguieron viaje a Iyé Abarín, en el desierto, a corta distancia de Moab hacia el oriente,
11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
12 y desde allí siguieron su camino hasta el valle del arroyo de Zéred y allí establecieron el campamento.
12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
13 Luego se trasladaron al otro lado del río Arnón, cerca de la frontera de los amorreos. (El río Arnón es la línea limítrofe entre los moabitas y los amorreos.
13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Este hecho se menciona en el libro de los guerras del Señor, donde se dice que el valle del río Arnón y la ciudad de Waheb
14 Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
15 están entre los amorreos y el pueblo de Moab:)
15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
16 Entonces Israel viajó hasta Ber, que significa pozo. Este es el lugar donde el Señor le dijo a Moisés: «Convoca al pueblo y yo les daré agua».
16 From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17 Lo que ocurrió lo describe una canción que el pueblo canta: «Brota, oh manantial; cantémosle al agua.
17 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
18 Este manantial los caudillos lo cavaron con sus bastones y sus palas». Salieron del desierto y pasaron por Matana,
18 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
19 Najaliel y Bamot.
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20 Luego entraron en los valles de la meseta de Moab hasta llegar a la cumbre del monte Pisgá, desde donde se puede ver el desierto.
20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
21 Israel envió entonces embajadores al rey Sijón de los amorreos.
21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 «Permítanos cruzar por su territorio —le pidieron—. No nos saldremos del camino real hasta que hayamos pasado las fronteras. No nos meteremos en los campos ni en los viñedos, ni beberemos el agua de sus pozos».
22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
23 Pero el rey Sijón se negó. En vez de concederles el permiso, movilizó su ejército, y atacó a Israel en el desierto. Le presentó batalla en Yahaza.
23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
24 Pero Israel lo derrotó y ocupó la tierra desde el río Arnón hasta el río Jaboc, es decir, hasta la frontera de los amonitas. Se detuvieron allí porque las ciudades amonitas estaban bien fortificadas.
24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
25 De este modo Israel capturó todas las ciudades de los amorreos y vivió en ellas incluyendo la ciudad de Hesbón,
25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
26 de la cual había sido rey Sijón, el que anteriormente había peleado contra el rey de Moab y había tomado toda la tierra de este hasta Arnón.
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 to the Arnon.
27 Los poetas de antaño se habían referido a Sijón con este poema: «Vengan a Hesbón, capital de Sijón.
27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
28 Porque de ella ha salido fuego, y ha devorado a la ciudad de Ar en Moab, en las alturas del río Arnón.
28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
29 ¡Ay de ti, Moab! Pueblo de Quemós, ¡estás acabado! Los hijos de Moab han huido, y sus hijas han sido capturadas por Sijón, rey de los amorreos.
29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 Él ha devastado el reino de ellos, y ha perecido Hesbón hasta Dibón, y destruimos hasta Nofa y Medeba».
30 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
31 Estando Israel en el país de los amorreos,
31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
32 Moisés envió exploradores a observar el territorio de Jazer; luego capturó sus pueblos, y expulsó a los amorreos.
32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
33 Más tarde se fueron a la ciudad de Basán, pero el rey Og de Basán se enfrentó a ellos en Edrey.
33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
34 El Señor le dijo a Moisés que no tuviera temor, que el enemigo ya estaba vencido. «Lo mismo que le ocurrió al rey Sijón en Hesbón le ocurrirá al rey Og», —les dijo el Señor.
34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
35 Y así ocurrió: Israel obtuvo la victoria y mató al rey Og, a sus hijos y a sus súbditos, ¡no quedó nadie vivo! Israel tuvo paso libre para tomar posesión de ese territorio.
35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Og
The king of Bashan, last of the remnant of the Rephaim, who came out against Israel at Edrei and was struck down with his sons and his whole army.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:1; Deuteronomy 3:11
Sihon
The Amorite king who reigned in Heshbon, refused to let Israel pass through his land, fought Israel at Jahaz, and lost his territory from the Arnon to the Jabbok.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 21:21; Numbers 21:23–24; Deuteronomy 2:26
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Numbers 33:40; Judges 1:16; Joshua 12:14; Joshua 7:5; Numbers 14:45
- 2 Judges 11:30; Genesis 28:20; 1 Samuel 1:11; Joshua 6:26; 2 Samuel 15:7–8
- 3 Numbers 14:45; Deuteronomy 1:44; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 102:17; Psalm 10:17
- 4 Exodus 6:9; Judges 11:18; Acts 14:22; Numbers 32:7; Numbers 32:9
- 5 Psalm 78:19; Exodus 17:2–3; Numbers 16:41; Numbers 16:13–14; Exodus 14:11
- 6 1 Corinthians 10:9; Deuteronomy 8:15; Jeremiah 8:17; Amos 9:3–4; Isaiah 30:6
- 7 Acts 8:24; Psalm 78:34; Exodus 8:8; Numbers 11:2; Exodus 8:28
- 8 John 3:14; Psalm 106:43–45; Psalm 145:8
- 9 John 3:14–15; Hebrews 12:2; John 6:40; 2 Kings 18:4; John 12:32
- 10 Numbers 33:43–45
- 12 Deuteronomy 2:13–14
- 13 Judges 11:18; Numbers 22:36; Isaiah 16:2; Numbers 21:14; Jeremiah 48:20
- 14 Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18
- 15 Numbers 21:28; Deuteronomy 2:18; Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:29; Isaiah 15:1
- 16 Numbers 20:8; Isaiah 41:17–18; Isaiah 12:3; Judges 9:21; Revelation 22:17
- 17 Psalm 105:2; Judges 5:1; Psalm 106:12; James 5:13; Isaiah 12:1–2
- 18 Isaiah 33:22; Deuteronomy 33:4; Deuteronomy 5:31; James 4:12; John 1:17
- 20 Numbers 23:28; Numbers 23:14; Numbers 22:1; Numbers 33:49–50; Numbers 26:63
- 21 Deuteronomy 2:26–28; Judges 11:19–21; Numbers 20:14–19
- 22 Numbers 20:17
- 23 Judges 11:20; Deuteronomy 29:7–8; Jeremiah 48:34; Numbers 20:21; Deuteronomy 2:30–32
- 24 Amos 2:9; Nehemiah 9:22; Genesis 32:22; Joshua 24:8; Psalm 136:19
- 25 Deuteronomy 2:12; Ezekiel 16:53; Jeremiah 48:34; Numbers 21:31; Song of Songs 7:4
- 27 Isaiah 14:4; Habakkuk 2:6; Numbers 21:14
- 28 Numbers 21:15; Jeremiah 48:45–46; Amos 2:2; Numbers 22:41; Amos 1:14
- 29 2 Kings 23:13; Judges 11:24; Jeremiah 48:46; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33
- 30 Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:18; Jeremiah 48:22; Numbers 32:34; Joshua 13:17
- 31 Deuteronomy 3:16–17; Joshua 12:1–6; Numbers 32:33–42; Joshua 13:8–12
- 32 Jeremiah 48:32; Numbers 32:1; Numbers 32:35; Numbers 32:3; Isaiah 16:8–9
- 33 Joshua 13:12; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 29:7; Deuteronomy 3:1–6; Numbers 32:33
- 34 Psalm 135:10–11; Numbers 21:24–25; Joshua 8:7; Deuteronomy 3:2–3; Judges 11:30
- 35 Deuteronomy 3:3–17; Joshua 12:4–6; Joshua 13:12; Psalm 135:10–12; Deuteronomy 29:7–8
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… that Moses, by the inspiration and influence of God, took brass, and made it into the figure of a cross, and set it in the holy tabernacle, and said to the people, "If ye look to this figure, and believe, ye shall be saved thereby." And when this was done, it is recorded that the serpents died, and it is …
This was done: men were bitten; they looked and were healed. What are the biting serpents?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
This was the figure which Moses completed by fixing the serpent to a cross, that whoso had been bitten by the living serpent, and looked to the brasen serpent, might be saved by believing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)