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Numbers 21:5-15

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5 The people spoke against God and Moses: "Why did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us in the desert, where there is no food or water. And we detest this miserable bread!"
6 So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people and they bit the people. Many of the Israelites died.
7 The people went to Moses and said, "We've sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and you. Pray to the LORD so that he will send the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous snake and place it on a pole. Whoever is bitten can look at it and live."
9 Moses made a bronze snake and placed it on a pole. If a snake bit someone, that person could look at the bronze snake and live.

March around Moab

10 Then the Israelites marched and they camped at Oboth.
11 They marched from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the desert on the border of Moab toward the east.
12 From there they marched and camped in the Zered ravine.
13 From there they marched and camped across the Arnon in the desert that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon was the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 For this reason the scroll of the LORD's wars says: Waheb in Suphah and the ravines. The Arnon
15 and the ravines that extend to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.
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Numbers 21:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 21

This chapter gives an account of the defeat of King Arad, the Canaanite, Nu 21:1-3 of the murmurings of the children of Israel, because of difficulties in travelling round, the land of Edom, for which they were punished with fiery serpents, Nu 21:4-6 and how that upon their repentance a brazen serpent was ordered to be made, and to be erected on a pole, that whoever looked to it might live, Nu 21:7-9 and of the several journeys and stations of the children of Israel, until they came to the land of the Amorites, Nu 21:10-20, when they sent a message to Sihon their king, to desire him to grant them a passage through his country; but he refusing, they fought with him, smote him, and possessed his land, concerning which many proverbial sayings were used, Nu 21:21-32 and the chapter is concluded with the defeat of Og, king of Bashan, Nu 21:33-35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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