Today is the 14th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today around the global campfire.

And I got my steamy cup of wind farm coffee here to my left once when I was in the middle of doing one.

And I turn the mic on, so sorry about that. But what I have before me is our next step forward.

And that next step will lead us back into the book of numbers. The children of Israel have turned away from the promised land and are wandering in the wilderness at this point.

But it's a lot of people and it's disrupting all of the nations around them as we will soon see.

Numbers, chapters 21, verse 1, through 22, verse 20 today.

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Nagab, heard that Israel was coming by way of a thorem. He fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

Then Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.

The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and handed over the Canaanites and they utterly destroyed them in their towns. So the place was called Horma.

From out hore they set out by the way to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people became discouraged on the way.

The people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?

For there is no food and no water and we detest this miserable food.

Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people and they bit the people so that many Israelites died.

The people came to Moses and said, We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.

So Moses prayed for the people and the Lord said to Moses, Make a poisonous serpent and set it on a pole and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.

So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

These Israelites set out in Camden, Obot. They set out from Obot and Camden lie a barren in the wilderness bordering Moab toward the sunrise.

From there they set out in Camden in the Wadi's the Red. From there they set out in Camden on the other side of the Arnon in the wilderness that extends from the boundary of the Amorites.

For the Arnon is the boundary of Moab between Moab and the Amorites.

Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Waheeb in Sufa and the Wadi's, the Arnon and the slopes of the Wadi's that extend to the seat of R and lie along the border of Moab.

From there they continued to beer, that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses,

Gather the people together and I will give them water.

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