Numbers 21:2-4

Good News Translation

²Then the Israelites made a vow to the Lord: “If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate^[a] them and their cities to you and will destroy them.” ³The Lord heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. So the Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.^[b]

The Snake Made of Bronze

⁴^(A)The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience

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Footnotes

Numbers 21:2 Anything dedicated in this way belonged completely to the Lord and could not be used; it had to be destroyed.
Numbers 21:3 This name in Hebrew means “destruction.”