Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 21

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Numbers 21 . 1 , Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah; Numbers 21 . 4 , The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents; Numbers 21 . 7 , They repenting are healed by a brazen serpent; Numbers 21 . 10 , Sundry journeys of the Israelites; Numbers 21 . 21 , Sihon is overcome , Numbers 21 . 33 , and Og.

Numbers 21:1

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.

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Dr. Kennicott remarks , that the word atharim , rendered spies in our version , is in the Greek a proper name (טבסוים , (Atharim)

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Numbers 21:2

So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”

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Numbers 21:3

And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.

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and they utterly Wyyacharem , rather with the LXX ךבי בםוטולבפיףום , "and they anathematised , or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua . Joshua 12 . 14.

Numbers 21:4

Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

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or , grieved , Heb. shortened

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Numbers 21:5

and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

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Numbers 21:6

So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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Numbers 21:7

Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.

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Numbers 21:8

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

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Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

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Numbers 21:10

Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

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Numbers 21:11

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

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or , heaps of Abarim

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Oboth Probably Oboda , a city of Arabia Petrea , mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.

Numbers 21:12

From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.

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Numbers 21:13

From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

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Numbers 21:14

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,

Numbers 21:14 · BSB

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or , Vaheb in Suphah , The following seems to be the sense of this passage . "From Vaheb in Suphah , and the torrents of Arnon , even the effusion of the torrents , which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar , and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; . which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses , Gather the people , and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song . Spring up , O Well! Answer ye to it. The well , princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it , by a decree , upon their borders and from the wilderness . or the well , as in LXX to Mattanah; and from Mattanah ," etc. The whole of this , from

  • Numbers 21:14-20 is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah ," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua , and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity , and obviates every difficulty

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Numbers 21:15

even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

Numbers 21:15 · BSB

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Numbers 21:16

From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”

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Numbers 21:17

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

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Spring up Heb. ascend

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Numbers 21:18

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

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Numbers 21:19

and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

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Numbers 21:20

and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

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Heb. field

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or , the wilderness

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Pisgah or the hill

Numbers 21:21

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

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Numbers 21:22

“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

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Numbers 21:23

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 21:23 · BSB

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Numbers 21:24

And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

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Numbers 21:25

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

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Heshbon was situated , according to Eusebius , twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome , who places it at the same distance , says it was , in his time , a very considerable city. It still subsists , in ruins , under the name of Heshban

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Numbers 21:26

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

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Arnon is a stream which takes its rise in the mountains of Moab , and , by a north-west course , during which it receives the waters of several streams , runs into the Dead sea. It is now called Wady Modjeb , and divides the province of Pelka from that of Kerek , as it formerly divided the kingdoms of the Moabites and Amorites. Its principal source is at a short distance to the north-east of Katrane , a station of the Syrian Hadj , where it is called Seyl Sayde; and lower down it receives the name of Esseim el Kereim , or Szefye

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Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

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Numbers 21:28

For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon's heights.

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Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

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Numbers 21:30

But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

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Numbers 21:31

So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

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Numbers 21:32

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

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Numbers 21:33

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

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Numbers 21:34

But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Numbers 21:34 · BSB

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Numbers 21:35

So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.

Numbers 21:35 · BSB

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In the wider web6 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Jeremiah 48:45-46 → Numbers 21:28-29
Allusions John 3:14 → Numbers 21:8-9, Judges 11:15 → Numbers 21:10, Judges 11:15-27 → Numbers 21:10-26
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Bronze Serpent (Lifted Up for Healing)
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