Numbers 21:32

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

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In The King James Version

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

In Context

31So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.

33Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.

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Cross References

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

Numbers 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

Joshua 24:12And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

Jeremiah 48:32My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.

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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