Numbers 21:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

Cross References

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them, pursuing them as far as Hormah.

Numbers 33:40

The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 2:32

So when Sihon came out against us, he and all his people for battle at Jahaz,

Joshua 12:14

the king of Hormah one the king of Arad one

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, chasing them from outside the gate as far as Shebarim and killing them on the slope. The hearts of the people melted and turned to water.

Judges 1:16

The descendants of Hobab the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad. Then they went and settled with the Amalekites.