Numbers 21:32

After Moses/I sent some men to explore the area near Jazer city, Israeli people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there.

Translation for Translators

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 the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.

33Then they turned north toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei town.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:21the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”

Numbers 32:3“We have a great amount of livestock.

Joshua 24:12I am the one who caused them to panic as you advanced and enabled you to defeat them, as I had enabled you to do earlier to the two kings of the groups who were descendants of Amor. You did not defeat them by using your own bows and arrows and swords; it was I who defeated them.

Jeremiah 48:32You people of Sibmah city, you have many vineyards. It is as though the branches of your vines extend across the Dead Sea to Jazer city.

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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