Numbers 21:21

And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

In Context

20And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.

22Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

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Cross References

Numbers 20:14Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

Deuteronomy 2:27Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;

Joshua 24:8And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.

1 Chronicles 1:14And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,

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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