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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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THE LORDS. Hebrew. _Baalim._
HIGH PLACES. Compare Numbers 22:41 and Jeremiah 48:35....
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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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FOR THERE IS A FIRE GONE OUT OF HESHBON— The poet here rises into
raptures, and prophesies the conquest of the whole country by the
desolating army of Sihon marching out of Heshbon: for by _fire_ is
m...
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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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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 the co...
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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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כִּי ־אֵשׁ֙ יָֽצְאָ֣ה מֵֽ חֶשְׁבֹּ֔ון
לֶהָבָ֖ה מִ קִּרְיַ֣ת סִיחֹ֑ן
אָֽכְלָה֙ עָ֣ר מֹואָ֔ב בַּעֲלֵ֖י
בָּמֹ֥ות
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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 retur...
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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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For there is a (l) fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of
Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high places
of Arnon.
(l) Meaning, wane....
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_A fire and flame, denote the horrors of war, Judges ix. 20. --- Ar.
Samaritan and Septuagint read ad, "hath consumed even the country of
the Moabites and the lords (or pillars, Septuagint) of Bamoth,...
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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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FOR THERE IS A FIRE GONE OUT OF HESHBON,.... Not before, but after
Sihon had subdued it, as Jarchi observes; and is to be understood of
his soldiers going out from thence, and making desolations in th...
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_A fire_ The fury of war, which is fitly compared to fire. _Out of
Heshbon_ That city which before was a refuge and defence to all the
country, now is turned into a great annoyance. _It hath consumed...
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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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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...
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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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A FIRE, i.e. the fury of war, which is oft and fitly compared to fire
here, as ISAIAH 47:14 AMOS 1:7,10,12,14 2:2,5; HESHBON; that city
which before was a refuge and defence to all the country, now is...
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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 21:28 fire H784 out H3318 (H8804) Heshbon H2809 flame H3852
city H7151 Sihon H5511 consumed H398 (H8804) Ar H6144 Moab H4124
heights H1181 Arnon H769
a fire - Judges 9:20; Isaiah 10:16;...
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THE TRIUMPH SONG OF THE AMORITES (NUMBERS 21:27).
Numbers 21:27
‘That is the reason that they who speak in proverbs say,
“Come you to Heshbon;
Let the city of Sihon be built and established,
For...
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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. Numbers 21:25).
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = d...
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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).
NUMBERS 21:10
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SET FORWARD, and pitched in Oboth. In the list
of Numbers 33:1, there...
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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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Amos 1:10; Amos 1:12; Amos 1:14; Amos 1:4; Amos 1:7; Amos 2:2; Amos
2:5; Deuteronomy 2:18; Deuteronomy 2:9; Isaiah 10:16;...
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A fire — The fury of war, which is fitly compared to fire. Out of
Heshbon — That city which before was a refuge and defence to all the
country, now is turned into a great annoyance. It hath consumed A...