¹⁶ The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law,^(A) the Kenite,^(B) went up from the City of Palms^[a](C) with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.^(D)

²⁹ Now Moses said to Hobab^(A) son of Reuel^(B) the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,^(C) “We are setting out for the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’^(D) Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”

³⁰ He answered, “No, I will not go;^(E) I am going back to my own land and my own people.^(F)”

³¹ But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.^{(G) 32} If you come with us, we will share with you^(H) whatever good things the Lord gives us.^(I)”

¹¹ Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites,^(A) the descendants of Hobab,^(B) Moses’ brother-in-law,^[a] and pitched his tent by the great tree^(C) in Zaanannim^(D) near Kedesh.

⁶ Then he said to the Kenites,^(A) “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

³ the Negev^(A) and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms,^(B) as far as Zoar.^(C)

Arad Destroyed

21 When the Canaanite king of Arad,^(A) who lived in the Negev,^(B) heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.

¹³ Getting the Ammonites^(A) and Amalekites^(B) to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.^[a](C)

¹⁷ Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael,^(A) the wife of Heber the Kenite,^(B) because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor^(C) and the family of Heber the Kenite.

² “Go to the Rekabite^(A) family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms^(B) of the house of the Lord and give them wine to drink.”