Bilang 21:1

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1 Ug sa nakadungog ang Canaanhon, ang hari sa Arad nga nagpuyo sa habagatan, nga nagapaingon nganhi ang Israel sa dalan sa mga magpapaniid, nakig-away siya batok sa Israel, ug nakuha ang uban kanila nga bihag.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Arad: Numbers 33:40, Joshua 12:14, Judges 1:16

the way of the spies: Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word atharim, rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name (טבסוים, (Atharim). Numbers 13:21, Numbers 13:22, Numbers 14:45

then: Deuteronomy 2:32, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 11:19, Joshua 11:20, Psalms 44:3, Psalms 44:4

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:17 - General Psalms 78:32 - they sinned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [when] King Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south,.... Arad seems rather to be the name of a place, city, or country, of which the Canaanite was king, than the name of a man, since we read of the king of Arad, Joshua 12:14 see also Judges 1:16 and so the Targums of Onkelos and Jerusalem here render it, the king of Arad; and the Targum of Jonathan says, he changed his seat and reigned in Arad, which might have its name from Arvad, a son of Canaan, Genesis 10:18 and Jerom says n, that Arath, the same with Arad, is a city of the Amorites, near the wilderness of Kadesh, and that to this day it is shown, a village four miles from Malatis and twenty from Hebron, in the tribe of Judah; and so Aben Ezra observes, that the ancients say, this is Sihon (the king of the Amorites), and he is called a Canaanite, because all the Amorites are Canaanites; but, according to Jarchi, the Amalekites are meant, as it is said, "the Amalekites dwell in the land of the south": Numbers 13:29 and so the Targum of Jonathan here,

"and when Amalek heard, that dwelt in the land of the south;''

what he heard is particularly expressed in the following clause:

heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies: either after the manner of spies, or rather by the way in which the spies went thirty eight years ago, which was the way of the south, where this Canaanitish king dwelt, see Numbers 13:17, the Septuagint version leaves the word untranslated, taking it for the name of a place, and reads, "by the way of Atharim", so the Samaritan Pentateuch and Arabic version; and did such a place appear to have been hereabout, it would be the most likely sense of the passage; for as the spies were never discovered by the Canaanites, the way they went could not be known by them; nor is it very probable that, if it had been known, it should be so called, since nothing of any consequence to them as yet followed upon it:

then he fought against Israel; raised his forces and marched out against them, to oppose their passage, and engaged in a battle with them:

and took some of them prisoners; according to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, great numbers of them; but Jarchi says, only one single maidservant.

n De locis Heb. fol. 87. K.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

King Arad the Canaanite - Rather, “the Canaanite, the king of Arad.” Arad stood on a small hill, now called Tel-Arad, 20 miles south of Hebron.

In the south - See Numbers 13:17, Numbers 13:22.

By the way of the spies - i. e. through the desert of Zin, the route which the spies sent out by Moses 38 years before had adopted (compare Numbers 13:21).

He fought against Israel - This attack (compare Numbers 20:1 and note), can hardly have taken place after the death of Aaron. It was most probably made just when the camp broke up from Kadesh, and the ultimate direction of the march was not as yet pronounced. The order of the narrative in these chapters, as occasionally elsewhere in this book (compare Numbers 9:1, etc.), is not that of time, but of subject matter; and the war against Arad is introduced here as the first of the series of victories gained under Moses, which the historian now takes in hand to narrate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

Arad, a king of the Canaanites, attacks Israel, and makes same

prisoners, 1.

They devote him and his people to destruction, 2;

which they afterwards accomplished, 3.

They journey from Hor, and are greatly discouraged, 4.

They murmur against God and Moses, and loathe the manna, 5.

The Lord sends fiery serpents among them, 6.

They repent, and beg Moses to intercede for them, 7.

The Lord directs him to make a brazen serpent, and set it on a

pole, that the people might look on it and be healed, 8.

Moses does so, and the people who beheld the brazen serpent

lived, 9.

They journey to Oboth, Ije-abarim, Zared, and Arnon, 10-13.

A quotation from the book of the wars of the Lord, 14, 15.

From Arnon they came to Beer, 16.

Their song of triumph, 17-20.

Moses sends messengers to the Amorites for permission to pass

through their land, 21, 22.

Sihon their king refuses, attacks Israel, is defeated, and all

his cities destroyed, 23-26.

The poetic proverbs made on the occasion, 27-30.

Israel possesses the land of the Amorites, 31, 32.

They are attacked by Og king of Bashan, 33.

They defeat him, destroy his troops and family, and possess his

land, 34, 35.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI

Verse Numbers 21:1. The way of the spies — אתרים atharim. Some think that this signifies the way that the spies took when they went to search the land. But this is impossible, as Dr. Kennicott justly remarks, because Israel had now marched from Meribah-Kadesh to Mount Hor, beyond Ezion-Gaber, and were turning round Edom to the south-east; and therefore the word is to be understood here as the name of a place.