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CHAPTER 21
Murmuring and Conquest
_ 1. Opposition of King Arad (Numbers 21:1)_
2. Murmuring and the fiery serpents (Numbers 21:4)
3. The serpent of brass (Numbers 21:8)
4. Journeying and singing
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THE CONQUEST OF THE AMORITES. This narrative presupposes the position
reached in Numbers 21:13 (not in Numbers 21:20), for the embassy to
Sihon would naturally be despatched before the Amorite border...
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WE. Israel.
WE HAVE LAID, &C _,_ to end of verse. These two clauses are affected
by the "extraordinary points" (see App-31), which necessitates the
following rendering of Numbers 21:30, "We have shot...
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_The victories over Sihon and Og_. See the parallel account in
Deuteronomy 2:24 to Deuteronomy 3:13. The previous verses have
described the Israelites" march through the territory occupied by the
Amor...
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WE HAVE SHOT AT THEM— The Hebrew here is אבד ונירם _vaniram
abad,_ which Le Clerc and others render, _and their light is perished:
i.e._ their valiant youth, who are the _lights_ and ornaments of the...
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H. VICTORY OVER SIHON AND OG vv. 21-35
TEXT
Numbers 21:21. 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 in...
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_WHEREFORE THEY THAT SPEAK IN PROVERBS SAY, COME INTO HESHBON, LET THE
CITY OF SIHON BE BUILT AND PREPARED:_ WHEREFORE THEY THAT SPEAK IN
PROVERBS, х_ HAMOSHªLIYM_ (H4911)] - parables, sententious say...
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21:30 them; (c-6) Or 'have laid them low.' Medeba. (d-25) Or 'with
fire unto Medeba.'...
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WE] the Israelites. DIBON is near the Arnon (Numbers 21:13). The
locality of NOPHAH is unknown. MEDEBA is a few miles S. of HESHBON.
The concluding words of the song are obscure, and may be rendered,...
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THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN
1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are
eventually destroyed....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 21
THE *ISRAELITES DEFEAT THE *CANAANITES – NUMBERS 21:1-3
V1 The king of Arad lived in the southern part of t
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(27-30) COME INTO HESHBON. — These verses appear to commemorate
first the victory of the Amorites over the Moabites, and then that of
the Israelites over the Amorites. They may be rendered thus: —
“_...
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וַ נִּירָ֛ם אָבַ֥ד חֶשְׁבֹּ֖ון עַד
־דִּיבֹ֑ון...
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THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN
Numbers 21:1
IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the
Israelites by the King of Arad took place on the occasion when, after
the return...
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VICTORY OVER THE AMORITES
Numbers 21:21
Two great victories opened the eastern lands to the possession and
settlement of two tribes and a half. It is not enough to know our
heritage in Christ; we mu...
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The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of
conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were
discouraged. Again they felt a lusting after Egypt and spoke against...
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Hesebon in the north, to Dibon in the southern extremity of the
conquered country, near the Arnon, where Moses places the station of
Dibon-gad. The yoke, or dominion of the Moabites, was ruined in all...
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It should seem that these words were a kind of saying, well
understood, no doubt, in those days, like proverbial sayings with us
now....
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The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has
evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise.
It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
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The question is not here to conduct the people with patience through
the wilderness, where the flesh manifested itself; but there are
enemies and difficulties to be met; for there are difficulties
dis...
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WE HAVE SHOT AT THEM,.... Either the Amorites at the Moabites, or else
the Israelites at the Amorites; for, according to Aben Ezra, these are
the words of Moses, though they, with Numbers 21:29, seem...
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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have
laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto Medeba.
Ver. 30. _We have shot at them._] Great swelling words of vanity...
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1 Israel with some losse destroy the Canaanites at Hormah.
4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents.
7 They repenting are healed by a brasen serpent.
10 Sundry iourneyes of the Israel...
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We have shot at them, we came and overthrew them; HESHBON IS PERISHED
EVEN UNTO DIBON, AND WE HAVE LAID THEM WASTE EVEN UNTO NOPHAH, WHICH
REACHETH UNTO MEDEBA, or, with fire unto Medeba. The children...
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THE OVERTHROW OF SIHON AND OG...
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ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES
(vs.1-3)
The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same
vicinity from which they had sent the spies into the south of Canaan.
He therefore took the i...
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21-35 Sihon went with his forces against Israel, out of his own
borders, without provocation, and so ran upon his own ruin. The
enemies of God's church often perish by the counsels they think most
wi...
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Though you feeble Moabites, and your god too, could not resist Sihon,
we Israelites, by the help of our God, HAVE SHOT, to wit, with success
and victory, as the following words show, at them, to wit,...
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This chapter brings prominently before us the familiar and beautiful
ordinance of the brazen Serpent that great evangelical type. "And they
journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compa...
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Numbers 21:30 shot H3384 (H8799) Heshbon H2809 perished H6 (H8804)
Dibon H1769 waste H8074 (H8686) Nophah...
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ISRAEL'S TAUNT SONG AGAINST THE AMORITES (NUMBERS 21:30).
We have shot at them;
Heshbon is perished even to Dibon,
And we have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”
In an addition t...
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CONTENTS: Victories of Israel; the serpent of brass.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Arad, Sihon, Og.
CONCLUSION: Those who cry without cause will be given just cause to
cry and they will be compelle...
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Numbers 21:1. _King Arad;_ that is, Arad king of Arad. _The way of the
spies,_ is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from
Kadesh-Barnea. But the LXX not understanding it so, render it...
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_Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass._
THE WICKED HATE AND PERSECUTE THE GODLY WITHOUT ANY JUST CAUSE
This is the practice of wicked men to pursue the children of God with
all despiteful dealing,...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:21 SIHON, king of the Amorites, attacked
Israel and was defeated (v. Numbers 21:24). This was the first land
the Israelites settled (v
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:27 This old poem celebrates the previous
capture of Moabite territory by SIHON. It is probably included to show
that the Israelites were justified in displacing the Amorites...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
Numbers 21:1. _King Arad the Canaanite_. Rather, “the Canaanite King
of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaanites (Joshua 12:14),
and was situated on a hill called...
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EXPOSITION
THE END OF JOURNEYS, THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES
(Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1)....
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Let's turn in our Bibles to Numbers chapter twenty-one.
Now the children of Israel have been in the wilderness for about
thirty-nine years and they are now beginning to make their move
towards the Pro...
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2 Samuel 11:24; Genesis 49:23; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 15:9; Jeremiah 48
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Though you feeble Moabites, and your God too, could not resist Sihon,
we Israelites, by the help of our God, have shot, with success and
victory, at them, at Sihon and his Amorites. Heshbon — The roya...