Numbers 21:21

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying:

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20from Bamoth, a valley in the region of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks out opposite the desert.

22“I beg you to permit me to cross through your land. We will not turn aside into the fields or the vineyards. We will not drink waters from the wells. We will travel by the royal way, until we have passed your borders.”

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Cross References

Numbers 20:14Meanwhile, Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. They said: “Your brother Israel says this: You know of all the hardships which have overtaken us,

Deuteronomy 2:27‘We will cross through your land. We will advance by the public way. We will not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left.

Joshua 24:8And I led you into the land of the Amorite, who was living beyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them into your hands, and you possessed their land, and you put them to death.

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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