Numbers 21:21

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."

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,

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,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

Contextual Overview

²¹Israel 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." ²³But Sihon wouldn't let Israel go through. Instead he got his army together and marched into the wilderness to fight Israel. At Jahaz he attacked Israel. But Israel fought hard, beat him soundly, and took possession of his land from the Arnon all the way to the Jabbok right up to the Ammonite border. They stopped there because the Ammonite border was fortified. Israel took and occupied all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its surrounding villages. Heshbon was the capital city of Sihon king of the Amorites. He had attacked the former king of Moab and captured all his land as far north as the river Arnon. That is why the folk singers sing, Come to Heshbon to rebuild the city, restore Sihon's town. ²⁸Fire once poured out of Heshbon, flames from the city of Sihon; Burning up Ar of Moab, the natives of Arnon's heights. Doom, Moab! The people of Chemosh, done for! Sons turned out as fugitives, daughters abandoned as captives to the king of the Amorites, to Sihon. ³⁰ Oh, but we finished them off: Nothing left of Heshbon as far as Dibon; Devastation as far off as Nophah, scorched earth all the way to Medeba. ³¹Israel 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. ³³ Then they turned north on the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan marched out with his entire army to meet Moses in battle at Edrei. ³⁴ God said to Moses, "Don't be afraid of him. I'm making a present of him to you, him and all his people and his land. Treat him the same as Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon." ³⁵ So they attacked him, his sons, and all the people—there was not a single survivor. Israel took the land.

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

Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them off from the Wilderness of Paran at the command of God . All of them were leaders in Israel, one from each tribe. These were their names: from Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur from Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori from Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh from Issachar: Igal son of Joseph from Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun from Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu from Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi from Manasseh (a Joseph tribe): Gaddi son of Susi from Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli from Asher: Sethur son of Michael from Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi from Gad: Geuel son of Maki.

Numbers 13:26
They presented themselves before Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the People of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told the story of their trip: "We went to the land to which you sent us and, oh! It does flow with milk and honey! Just look at this fruit! The only thing is that the people who live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of the giant Anak. Amalekites are spread out in the Negev; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites hold the hill country; and the Canaanites are established on the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan." Caleb interrupted, called for silence before Moses and said, "Let's go up and take the land—now. We can do it." But the others said, "We can't attack those people; they're way stronger than we are." They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, "We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it's a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers."

1 Samuel 25:1
Samuel died. The whole country came to his funeral. Everyone grieved over his death, and he was buried in his hometown of Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved again, this time to the wilderness of Maon.

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.