Num 21 | TSK | STEP | Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah. The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents. They repenting are healed by a brazen serpent. Sundry journeys of the Israelites. Sihon is overcome, and Og. Arad. the way of the spies.Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word {atharim,} rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name ([Atharein,] Atharim). then.

Numbers 21

1 Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah.

4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents.

7 They repenting are healed by a brazen serpent.

10 Sundry journeys of the Israelites.

21 Sihon is overcome,

33 and Og.

Arad.

33:40; Jos 12:14; Jud 1:16

the way of the spies.Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word {atharim,} rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name ([Atharein,] Atharim).

13:21,22; 14:45

then.

De 2:32; Jos 7:5; 11:19,20; Ps 44:3,4

vowed.

Ge 28:20; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 15:7,8; Ps 56:12,13; 116:18

Ps 132:2

I will.

Le 27:28,29; De 13:15; Jos 6:17,26; 1Co 16:22

hearkened.

Ps 10:17; 91:15; 102:17

and they utterly.{Wyyacharem,} rather with the LXX. [kai anethematisen,] "and they anathematised, or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua. (Jos 12:14.)

the name.

14:45; De 1:44; 1Sa 30:30{Hormah,} that is, utter destruction. {Chormah,} rather a devoting to destruction: so LXX. [Anathema,] and Tremellius, {devotio sive anathema.}

mount Hor.

20:22,23,27; 33:41

by the way.

14:25; De 1:40

compass.

20:18-21; De 2:5-8; Jud 11:18

the soul.

32:7,9; Ex 6:9; Ac 14:22; 1Th 3:3,4

discouraged. or, grieved. Heb. shortened.

Ex 6:9

spake.

11:1-6; 14:1-4; 16:13,14,41; 17:12; Ex 14:11; 15:24; 16:2,3,7,8

Ex 17:2,3; Ps 68:6; 78:19

and our soul.

11:6-9; Ex 16:15,31; Ps 78:24,25; Pr 27:7

Ge 3:14,15; De 8:15; Isa 14:29; 30:6; Jer 8:17; Am 9:3,4; 1Co 10:9

We have.

Ex 9:27,28; 1Sa 12:19; 15:24,30; Ps 78:34; Mt 27:4

pray.

Ex 8:8,28; 1Ki 13:6; Jer 37:3; Ac 8:24; Jas 5:16

And Moses.

11:2; 14:17-20; Ge 20:7; Ex 32:11,30; De 9:20,26-29

1Sa 12:20-23; Job 42:8,10; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1; Ro 10:1

Ps 106:43-45; 145:8

A serpent of.

2Ki 18:4; Joh 3:14,15; 12:32; Ro 8:3; 2Co 5:21

when he.

Isa 45:22; Zec 12:10; Joh 1:29; Heb 12:2; 1Jo 3:8

he lived.

Joh 6:40; Ro 1:17; 5:20,21

33:43-45

Oboth.Probably Oboda, a city of Arabia Petræa, mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.

Ije-abarim. or, heaps of Abarim.

the valley of Zared.

De 2:13,14

the brook Zered.

14; 22:36; De 2:24; Jud 11:18; Isa 16:2; Jer 48:20

in the book.

Jos 10:13; 2Sa 1:18

What he did. or, Vaheb in Suphah.The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; (which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree, upon their borders;) and from the wilderness (or the well, as in LXX.) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of this, from ver. 14-20, is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every difficulty.

Ar.

28; De 2:9,18,29; Isa 15:1

lieth. Heb. leaneth.

Beer.

Jud 9:21

Gather.

20:8; Ex 17:6; Isa 12:3; 41:17,18; 43:20; 49:10; Joh 4:10,14

Joh 7:37-39; Re 21:6; 22:1,17

sang.

Ex 15:1,2; Jud 5:1; Ps 105:2; 106:12; Isa 12:1,2,5; Jas 5:13

Spring up. Heb. ascend. sing ye. or answer.

princes.

2Ch 17:7-9; Ne 3:1,5; 1Ti 6:17,18

the lawgiver.

De 5:31; 33:4; Isa 33:22; Joh 1:17; Jas 4:12

And from.

33:45-47

country. Heb. field.

22:1; 26:63; 33:49,50; De 1:5

to the.

23:14; De 3:27; 4:49; 34:1

Pisgah. or the hill. Jeshimon. or, the wilderness.

23:28

20:14-19; De 2:26-28; Jud 11:19-21

20:17

Sihon would.

De 2:30-32; 29:7,8

Jahaz.

Jud 11:20; Isa 15:4; Jer 48:34

Israel.

32:1-4,33-42; De 2:31-37; 29:7; Jos 9:10; 12:1-3; 13:8-10; 24:8

Jud 11:21-23; 12:1,2; 21:8; Ne 9:22; Ps 135:10-12; 136:19; Am 2:9

Arnon.

13; Ge 32:22; De 3:16

dwelt.

31; 32:33-42; De 2:12

in Heshbon.Heshbon was situated, according to Eusebius, twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome, who places it at the same distance, says it was, in his time, a very considerable city. It still subsists, in ruins, under the name of Heshban.

So 7:4; Isa 15:4; 16:8,9; Jer 48:2,34,45

villages. Heb. daughters.

Eze 16:46,49,53

Arnon.Arnon is a stream which takes its rise in the mountains of Moab, and, by a north-west course, during which it receives the waters of several streams, runs into the Dead sea. It is now called Wady Modjeb, and divides the province of Pelka from that of Kerek, as it formerly divided the kingdoms of the Moabites and Amorites. Its principal source is at a short distance to the north-east of Katrane, a station of the Syrian Hadj, where it is called Seyl Sayde; and lower down it receives the name of Esseim el Kereim, or Szefye.

14; Isa 14:4; Hab 2:6

a fire.

Jud 9:20; Isa 10:16; Jer 48:45,46; Am 1:4,7,10,12,14; 2:2,5

Ar of Moab.

15; De 2:9,18; Isa 15:1,2

Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7,33; 2Ki 23:13; Jer 48:7,13,46; 1Co 8:4,5

have shot.

Ge 49:23; 2Sa 11:24; Ps 18:14

Dibon.

32:34; Jos 13:17; Isa 15:2,9; Jer 48:18,22

32:33-42; De 3:16,17; Jos 12:1-6; 13:8-12

Jaazer.