Numbers 21:17

Then singeth Israel this song, concerning the well — they have answered to it:

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And from thence [they journeyed] to Beer; it [is] the well [concerning] which Jehovah said to Moses, 'Gather the people, and I give to them — water.'

18'A well — digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.' And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,

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Cross References

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

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

Isaiah 12:5Praise ye Jehovah, for excellence He hath done, Known is this 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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