Numbers 21:17

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

In Context

16From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

18The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

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Cross References

Judges 5:1At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:

Psalms 106:12Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise.

Isaiah 12:5Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:11-21

The Removal of the Camp. ( b. c. 1452.) 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. 13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is… Read the whole commentary →

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