Numbers 21:17

There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

18Sing about this well which our leaders dug; they dug out the dirt with their royal scepters and their walking sticks.” Then the Israelis left that desert and went through Mattanah,

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Cross References

Judges 5:1On that day, Deborah sang this song, along with Barak:

Psalms 106:12When that happened, our ancestors believed that Yahweh had truly done for them what he had promised to do, and they sang to praise him.

Isaiah 12:5We should sing to Yahweh, because he has done wonderful things. We should enable everyone in the world to know it!

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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