Numbers 21:17

Then Israel sings this song: “Spring up, O well, || Let all answer to it!

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And from there [they journeyed] to Beer; it [is] the well [concerning] which YHWH said to Moses, “Gather the people, and I give water to them.”

18A well—princes have dug it, || Nobles of the people have prepared it, || With the lawgiver, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,

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Cross References

Judges 5:1And Deborah sings—also Barak son of Abinoam—on that day, saying,

Psalms 106:12And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

Isaiah 12:5Praise YHWH, for He has done excellence, || This is known in 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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