Numbers 21:21

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

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
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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.