Fiery serpents... They are so called, because they that were bitten by them were burnt with a violent heat. 21:7. Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 21:8. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. 21:9. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. A brazen serpent... This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the efficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish serpent. John 3.14. 21:10. And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth. 21:11. And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east. 21:12. And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared: 21:13. Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites. 21:14. Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon. The book of the wars, etc... An ancient book, which, like several others quoted in scripture, has been lost. 21:15. The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites. 21:16. When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water. 21:17. Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto: 21:18. The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana. 21:19. From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth. 21:20. From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert. 21:21. And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying: 21:22. I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be past thy borders. 21:23. And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa and fought against them. 21:24. And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison. 21:25. So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.