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Numbers 21:31

So the Israelites made their camp in the land of the Amorites.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heshbon;   Israel;   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 - Bashan;   Canaan;   Jabbok;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amorite (the);   Sihon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Conquest of Canaan;   Dibon;   Heshbon;   Reba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jephthah;   Medeba;   Moab, Moabites;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Heshbon ;   Sihon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount hor;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sihon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'orite, the Am'orites;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Thus Yisra'el lived in the land of the Amori.
King James Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Lexham English Bible
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
English Standard Version
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
New Century Version
So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
New English Translation
So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.
Amplified Bible
Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
New American Standard Bible
So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus Israel dwelt in the lande of the Amorites.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
Contemporary English Version
After the Israelites had settled in the Amorite territory,
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus Isra'el lived in the land of the Emori.
Darby Translation
And Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Good News Translation
So the people of Israel settled in the territory of the Amorites,
Christian Standard Bible®
So Israel lived in the Amorites’ land.
Literal Translation
And Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus dwelt Israel in the lande of the Amorites.
American Standard Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Bible in Basic English
So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thus Israel dwelt in the lande of the Amorites.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
King James Version (1611)
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.
English Revised Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Berean Standard Bible
So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And so Israel dwellide in the lond of Ammorrey.
Young's Literal Translation
And Israel dwelleth in the land of the Amorite,
Update Bible Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
World English Bible
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
New King James Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
New Living Translation
So the people of Israel occupied the territory of the Amorites.
New Life Bible
So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
New Revised Standard
Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.
Revised Standard Version
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
THE MESSAGE
Israel moved in and lived in Amorite country. Moses sent men to scout out Jazer. They captured its villages and drove away the Amorites who lived there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

Contextual Overview

21 The Israelites sent some men to King Sihon of the Amorites. The men said to the king, 22 "Allow us to travel through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard. We will not drink water from any of your wells. We will travel only along King's Road. We will stay on that road until we have traveled through your country." 23 But King Sihon would not allow the Israelites to travel through his country. He gathered together his army and marched out to the desert to fight against the Israelites. The king's army fought against the Israelites at Jahaz. 24 But the Israelites defeated the king and took his land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. The Israelites took the land as far as the Ammonite border. They stopped at that border because it was strongly defended by the Ammonites. 25 Israel took all the Amorite cities and began living in them. They even defeated the city of Heshbon and all the small towns around it. 26 Heshbon was the city where Sihon, the Amorite king, lived. In the past Sihon had fought with the king of Moab. Sihon had taken the land as far as the Arnon River. 27 That is why the singers sing this song: "Go in and rebuild Heshbon! Make Sihon's city strong. 28 A fire began in Heshbon. That fire began in Sihon's city. The fire destroyed Ar in Moab. It burned the hills above Arnon River. 29 It is bad for you, Moab. You lost Chemosh's people. His sons ran away. His daughters were taken prisoners by Sihon, king of the Amorites. 30 But we defeated those Amorites. We destroyed their towns from Heshbon to Dibon, from Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 32:33-42, Deuteronomy 3:16, Deuteronomy 3:17, Joshua 12:1-6, Joshua 13:8-12

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:25 - dwelt

Cross-References

Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and water and gave them to Hagar. She carried them and left with her boy. She left that place and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
Genesis 26:23
From there Isaac went to Beersheba.
Genesis 26:33
So Isaac named it Shibah. And that city is still called Beersheba.
Joshua 15:28
Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
Judges 20:1
So all the Israelites joined together. They all came together to stand before the Lord in the city of Mizpah. People came from everywhere in Israel. Even the Israelites from Gilead were there.
2 Samuel 17:11
"This is what I suggest: You must gather all the Israelites together from Dan to Beersheba. Then there will be many people, like the sand by the sea. Then you yourself must go into the battle.
1 Kings 4:25
During Solomon's life everyone in Judah and Israel, all the way from Dan to Beersheba, lived in peace and security. The people were at peace sitting under their own fig trees and grapevines.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. Not the land of the Moabites; and by those means before mentioned; by conquering Sihon their king, they came into the possession of it, and took up their dwelling in it; this was the beginning of the conquest of the Canaanites, and an earnest and pledge of inheriting their land promised unto them; the Israelites that dwelt here were the tribes of Reuben and Gad.


 
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