Numbers 21:1

New American Bible - revised edition

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who ruled over the Negeb, heard that the Israelites were coming along the way of Atharim, he engaged Israel in battle and took some of them captive.

Cross References

Genesis 12:9

Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb. Abram and Sarai in Egypt.

Numbers 14:45

And the Amalekites and Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and defeated them, beating them back as far as Hormah.

Numbers 33:40

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who ruled over the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming….

Deuteronomy 2:32

So Sihon and all his people advanced against us to join battle at Jahaz;

Joshua 12:14

the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

Joshua 7:5

who killed some thirty-six of them. They pursued them from the city gate to the Shebarim, and defeated them on the descent, so that the confidence of the people melted away like water.

Judges 1:16

The descendants of Hobab the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, came up with the Judahites from the City of Palms to the wilderness of Arad, which is in the Negeb, and they settled among the Amalekites.