Numbers 21:21

Israel sent messengers to Sihon 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

20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

22“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”

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Cross References

Numbers 20:14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

Deuteronomy 2:27“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

Joshua 24:8“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.

1 Chronicles 1:14the Jebusite, the Amorite, 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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