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Complete Jewish Bible

Numbers 21:32

Moshe sent men to reconnoiter Ya‘zer; they captured its towns and drove out the Emori who were 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living 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 (RY: iv, LY: vii) Isra'el sent messengers to Sichon, king of the Emori, with this message: 22 "Let me pass through your land. We won't turn aside into fields or vineyards, and we won't drink any water from the wells. We will go along the King's Highway until we have left your territory." 23 But Sichon would not allow Isra'el to pass through his territory. Instead, Sichon mustered all his people and went out into the desert to fight Isra'el. On reaching Yachatz, he fought Isra'el. 24 Isra'el defeated him by force of arms and took control of his land from the Arnon to the Yabok River, but only as far as the people of ‘Amon, because the territory of the people of ‘Amon was well defended. 25 Isra'el took all these cities — Isra'el lived in all the cities of the Emori, in Heshbon and all its surrounding towns. 26 Heshbon was the city of Sichon, the king of the Emori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av and conquered all his land up to the Arnon. 27 This is why the storytellers say, "Come to Heshbon! Let it be rebuilt! Let Sichon's city be restored! 28 "For fire burst out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon. It consumed ‘Ar of Mo'av, the lords of Arnon's high places. 29 "Woe to you, Mo'av! You are destroyed, people of K'mosh! He let his sons be fugitives and his daughters captives of Sichon, king of the Emori. 30 "We shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed, all the way to Divon. We even laid waste to Nofach, which extends as far as Meidva."

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
the Patrusim, the Kasluchim (from whom came the P'lishtim) and the Kaftorim.
Genesis 14:13
Someone who had escaped came and told Avram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Emori, brother of Eshkol and brother of ‘Aner; all of them allies of Avram.
Genesis 21:27
Avraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Avimelekh, and the two of them made a covenant.
Genesis 26:8
But one day, after he had lived there a long time, Avimelekh king of the P'lishtim happened to be looking out of a window when he spotted Yitz'chak caressing Rivkah his wife.
Genesis 26:14
He had flocks, cattle and a large household; and the P'lishtim envied him.
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Avraham and also the god of Nachor, the god of their father, judge between us." But Ya‘akov swore by the One his father Yitz'chak feared.
Exodus 13:17
This will serve as a sign on your hand and at the front of a headband around your forehead that with a strong hand Adonai brought us out of Egypt." Haftarah Bo: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 46:13–28 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Bo: Luke 2:22–24; Yochanan (John) 19:31–37; Acts 13:16 –17; Revelation 8:6–9:12; 16:1–21 After Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not guide them to the highway that goes through the land of the P'lishtim, because it was close by — God thought that the people, upon seeing war, might change their minds and return to Egypt.
Judges 13:1
Again the people of Isra'el did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, and Adonai handed them over to the P'lishtim for forty years.
1 Samuel 18:3
Y'honatan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as he did himself.

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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