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Numbers 21:21

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambassadors;   Amorites;   Canaan;   Israel;   Sihon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ambassadors;   Nation, the;   Sihon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amorites, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Amorites;   Serpents;   Sihon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Canaan;   Edom;   Jabbok;   Moab;   Palestine;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Sihon;   Wars of the Lord, the Book of the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ambassador;   Ar;   Jephthah;   Sihon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Conquest of Canaan;   Dibon;   Heshbon;   Reba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ambassador, Ambassage;   Israel;   Jephthah;   Moab, Moabites;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Sihon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amorites ;   Arnon ;   Moab, Moabites ;   Sihon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sihon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ambassador,;   Si'hon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Division of the Earth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ammon;   Amorites;   Moab;   Moses;   Sihon;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Moab;   Sihon;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Yisra'el sent messengers to Sichon king of the Amori, saying,
King James Version
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying,
English Standard Version
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
New Century Version
The Israelites sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
New English Translation
Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
Amplified Bible
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites sent this message to King Sihon of the Amorites:
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: iv, LY: vii) Isra'el sent messengers to Sichon, king of the Emori, with this message:
Darby Translation
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites sent some men to King Sihon of the Amorites. The men said to the king,
George Lamsa Translation
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
Good News Translation
Then the people of Israel sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon to say:
Christian Standard Bible®
Israel sent messengers to say to King Sihon of the Amorites:
Literal Translation
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Israel sent messaungers vnto Siho the kynge of the Amorrites, & caused to saye vnto him:
American Standard Version
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Israel sent messengers vnto Sehon kyng of the Amorites, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
We will pass through thy land, we will go by the road; we will not turn aside to the field or to the vineyard.
English Revised Version
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Israel sente messangeris to Seon, kyng of Ammorreis, and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorite, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
World English Bible
Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
New King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:26-37">[xr] Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
New Living Translation
The Israelites sent ambassadors to King Sihon of the Amorites with this message:
New Life Bible
Then Israel sent men to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
New Revised Standard
Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then sent Israel messengers, unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
THE MESSAGE
Israel sent emissaries to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, "Let us cross your land. We won't trespass into your fields or drink water in your vineyards. We'll keep to the main road, the King's Road, until we're through your land."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

Contextual Overview

21Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,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." 23But 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. 24And 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. 25Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages. 26Heshbon 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. 27That is why the poets say: "Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored. 28For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon's heights. 29Woe 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. 30But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 20:14-19, Deuteronomy 2:26-28, Judges 11:19-21

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:13 - Amorite Deuteronomy 1:4 - General Deuteronomy 2:12 - as Israel did Deuteronomy 2:27 - General Deuteronomy 4:46 - Moses Deuteronomy 29:7 - General Joshua 2:10 - what ye did Joshua 24:8 - General Judges 10:11 - Amorites Judges 11:12 - sent messengers 1 Kings 4:19 - the country of Sihon 1 Chronicles 1:14 - Amorite Nehemiah 9:22 - Sihon Psalms 68:14 - When Psalms 135:11 - Sihon Psalms 136:19 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Numbers 10:12
and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So at the command of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
Numbers 13:26
and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
Judges 14:2
So he returned and told his father and his mother, "I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife."
1 Samuel 25:1
When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,.... Who were one of the nations of the Canaanites, and a principal and powerful one, and who were devoted to destruction, and their land designed for the people of Israel; see Genesis 15:16, at this time Sihon was their king, to whom Moses, in the name of Israel, sent a very peaceable message from the wilderness of Kedemoth, which lay near his country, Deuteronomy 2:26:

saying; as follows.


 
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