Numbers 21:21

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amoraah, saying:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20And from the height to the vale which is in the fields of Moab, at the head of Ramatha, which looketh towards Beth Jeshimon.

22I would pass through thy country: I will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink of the waters of the cistern; by the king’s highway will we go until we have crossed thy border.

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Cross References

Numbers 20:14And Mosheh sent ambassadors from Rekem to the king of Edom: Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the trouble we have found;

Deuteronomy 2:27May I pass through thy land by the way? I will go by the way, nor turn to the right or the left:

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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