When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.

“When you sound short blasts, the camps pitched on the east are to set out.

When calling the assembly together, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

“When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God and be delivered from your enemies.

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.