The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.

Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming on the Atharim road, he fought against Israel and captured some prisoners.

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

So Israel lived in the Amorites’ land.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,

At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard the Israelites were coming.