Numbers 21:21

Contemporary English Version

The Israelites sent this message to King Sihon of the Amorites:

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,

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,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Israel sent messengers to 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

²¹ The Israelites sent this message to King Sihon of the Amorites: ²² Please let us pass through your territory. We promise to stay away from your fields and vineyards, and we won't drink any water from your wells. As long as we're in your land, we won't get off the main road. ²³ But Sihon refused to let Israel travel through his land. Instead, he called together his entire army and marched into the desert to attack Israel near the town of Jahaz. ²⁴ Israel defeated them and took over the Amorite territory from the Arnon River gorge in the south to the Jabbok River gorge in the north. Beyond the Jabbok was the territory of the Ammonites, who were much stronger than Israel. ²⁵ The Israelites settled in the Amorite towns, including the capital city of Heshbon with its surrounding villages. ²⁶ King Sihon had ruled from Heshbon, after defeating the Moabites and taking over their land north of the Arnon River gorge. ²⁷ That's why the Amorites had written this poem about Heshbon: Come and rebuild Heshbon, King Sihon's capital city! ²⁸ His armies marched out like fiery flames, burning down the town of Ar and destroying the hills along the Arnon River. ²⁹ You Moabites are done for! Your god Chemosh deserted your people; they were captured, taken away by King Sihon the Amorite. ³⁰ We completely defeated Moab. The towns of Heshbon and Dibon, of Nophah and Medeba are ruined and gone.

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
Abraham named his son Isaac,

Genesis 21:4
and when the boy was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, just as the Lord had commanded.

Genesis 21:34
Then Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.

Numbers 10:12
So the Israelites broke camp and left the Sinai Desert. And some time later, the cloud stopped in the Paran Desert.

Numbers 12:16
Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the Paran Desert.

Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent twelve tribal leaders from Israel's camp in the Paran Desert

Numbers 13:26
the twelve men returned to Kadesh in the Paran Desert and told Moses, Aaron, and the people what they had seen. They showed them the fruit

Judges 14:2
When he got back home, he told his parents, "I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want to marry her. Get her for me!"

1 Samuel 25:1
Samuel died, and people from all over Israel gathered to mourn for him when he was buried at his home in Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved his camp to Paran Desert.

1 Corinthians 7:38
It is perfectly all right to marry, but it is better not to get married at all.

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.