Numbers 21:2-4

International Standard Version

² Then Israel^[a] made this vow in the Lord’s presence: “If you give these people into our control,^[b] we intend to devote their cities to total destruction.” ³ When the Lord heard what Israel had decided to do,^[c] he delivered the Canaanites to them, and Israel^[d] exterminated them and their cities. They named the place Hormah.^[e]

The Bronze Serpent

⁴ After this, they traveled from Mount Hor along the caravan route by way of the Sea of Reeds and went around the land of Edom. But when the people got impatient because it was a long route,