Numbers 21:31

So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

In Context

30They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

32And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:21And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 3:16And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;

Joshua 13:8With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:22-35

Sihon and Og Overthrown. ( b. c. 1452.) 21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against… Read the whole commentary →

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