War with the Canaanites

21 The Canaanite king of Arad lived in the ·southern area [Negev]. When he heard that the Israelites were coming on the road to Atharim, he attacked them and captured some of them.

⁴⁰ The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the ·southern area of Canaan [Negev], heard that the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] were coming [21:1].