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Numbers 21:32

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heshbon;   Israel;   Jaazer;   Jazer;   Spies;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jazer;   Spies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amorites, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Jazer;   Serpents;   Sihon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Bashan;   Canaan;   Jabbok;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Og;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amorite (the);   Jaazer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Conquest of Canaan;   Jaazer;   Jazer;   Reba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Israel;   Jazer;   Jephthah;   Medeba;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Heshbon ;   Jaazer, Jazer ;   Sihon ;   Villages;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount hor;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jazer;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja-A'zer,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jazer;   Moab;   Moses;   Sea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Government;   Jaazer;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amori who were there.
King James Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Lexham English Bible
Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured its environs and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
English Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
New Century Version
After Moses sent spies to the town of Jazer, they captured the towns around it, forcing out the Amorites who lived there.
New English Translation
Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Amplified Bible
Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they overthrew its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
New American Standard Bible
Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses sent to searche out Iaazer, and they tooke the townes belonging thereto, and rooted out the Amorites that were there.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Contemporary English Version
Moses sent some men to explore the town of Jazer. Later, the Israelites captured the villages surrounding it and forced out the Amorites who lived there.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe sent men to reconnoiter Ya‘zer; they captured its towns and drove out the Emori who were there.
Darby Translation
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its dependent villages, and he dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses sent some men to look at the town of Jazer. Then the Israelites captured that town and the small towns that were around it. They forced the Amorites who were living there to leave.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they captured its villages, and destroyed the Amorites that were there.
Good News Translation
and Moses sent men to find the best way to attack the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured it and its surrounding towns and drove out the Amorites living there.
Christian Standard Bible®
After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its surrounding villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Literal Translation
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its villages and drove out the Amorite who was there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses sent out spyes vnto Iahesar, & they toke the townes belongynge therto, & coquered the Amorites yt were therin.
American Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses sent to searche out Iaezer, and they toke the townes belonging therto, & rooted out the Amorites that were therein.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses sent to spy out Iaazer, and they tooke the villages thereof, and droue out the Amorites that were there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.
English Revised Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Berean Standard Bible
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises sente men that schulden aspie Jaser, whos `townes thei token, and weldiden the dwelleris.
Young's Literal Translation
and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who [is] there,
Update Bible Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and the Amorites that were there were driven out.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses sent to explore Jaazer, and they took its villages, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
World English Bible
Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
New King James Version
Then Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
New Living Translation
After Moses sent men to explore the Jazer area, they captured all the towns in the region and drove out the Amorites who lived there.
New Life Bible
Then Moses sent men to spy out Jazer in secret. And Israel took its towns and took the place of the Amorites who were there.
New Revised Standard
Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they captured its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured the villages thereof, - and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.
Revised Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Contextual Overview

21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land. 23 And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel. 24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed. 25 And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites. 26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon. 27 So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong: 28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon. 29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites. 30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jaazer: Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:35, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, Jeremiah 48:32, Jazer

Cross-References

Genesis 10:14
And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
Genesis 14:13
And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.
Genesis 21:27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
Genesis 26:8
And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis 26:14
For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Exodus 13:17
Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.
Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer,.... Or Jazer, as it is called in Isaiah 16:9, another city that belonged to the Amorites, and which they had taken from the Moabites; and which came into the hands of the latter again, after the captivity of the ten tribes, as appears from the above places; according to Jerom s, it was fifteen miles distant from Heshbon:

and they took the villages thereof; not the spies, as Jarchi, but the Israelites under Moses; who upon the return of the spies, and the report they made, marched towards it, and took it, and all the towns and villages round about it; for it seems to have been a principal city:

and drove out the Amorites that were there; that dwelt there, and were in possession of it; otherwise they would not have attacked it, had it, and its villages, been in the hands of the Moabites.

s De locis Heb. fol. 92. G.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jaazer - To he identified probably with the ruins Sir or es-Sir 10 miles north of Heshbon. The occupation of it by the Israelites virtually completed their conquest of the Amorite kingdom; and prepared the way for the pastoral settlements in it which they not long after established Numbers 32:35.


 
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