They sung. Hebrew, "sing ye unto it," in chorus, men and women. Septuagint, "commence a canticle unto it. This well the princes dug, the kings of nations hewed in the rock, in their kingdom, while they held dominion."
Verse Numbers 21:17. _SPRING UP, O WELL, C._] This is one of the most ancient war songs in the world, but is not easily understood, which is commonly the case with all very ancient compositions, espe...
This song, recognized by all authorities as dating from the earliest times, and suggested apparently by the fact that God in this place gave the people water not from the rock, but by commanding Moses...
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
AN ITINERARY. This continues Numbers 21:4 (and they journeyed from Mount Hor), but the immediate place of departure in Numbers 21:10 is omitted. In Numbers 33:42 f. two stations are inserted between H...
THIS SONG. See note on Exodus 15:1....
Numbers 21:12. J E The Israelites arrived at a spot on the S.E. border of Moab, and then, having travelled northwards along its eastern boundary, penetrated westward till they reached the cliffs whic...
G. BYPASSING MOAB vv. 10-20 TEXT Numbers 21:10. 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 b...
_THEN ISRAEL SANG THIS SONG, SPRING UP, O WELL; SING YE UNTO IT:_ Then Israel sang. This beautiful little song was in accordance with the wants and feelings of traveling caravans in the East, where w...
21:17 sing (k-9) Or 'answer,' 'respond,' as Hosea 2:25 ....
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
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
אָ֚ז יָשִׁ֣יר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת ־הַ שִּׁירָ֖ה ה
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...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT; JOURNEYING TO PISGAH Numbers 21:1 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fight the desert tribes, but it is harder to traverse the lon...
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...
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; (f) sing ye unto it: (f) You that receive the convenience of it, give praise for it....
Oh! how sweet are songs of praise to the highest! I hope the Reader will not need that I should point out to him in this place, the evident traces we have in it of GOD the HOLY GHOST. It is well known...
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...
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...
THEN ISRAEL SANG THIS SONG,.... Being affected with the free favour and good will of God towards them: SPRING UP, O WELL; for the springing up of which they prayed in faith, believing in the promise...
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: Ver. 17. _Then Israel sang this soug._] A sign of that Christian joy. Isa 12:3-4...
_Spring up_ Hebrew, _ascend;_ that is, let thy waters, which now lie hid below in the earth, ascend for our use. It is either a prediction that it should spring up, or a prayer that it might. _With th...
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...
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it....
FROM OBOTH TO JESHIMON...
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...
SPRING UP: _ Heb._ ascend SING: Or, answer...
10-20 We have here the removes of the children of Israel, till they came to the plains of Moab, from whence they passed over Jordan into Canaan. The end of their pilgrimage was near. "They set forwar...
ISRAEL SANG THIS SONG, to praise God for giving them such a seasonable blessing, before they asked it, or complained for the want of it. SPRING UP; give forth thy waters that we may drink. Heb. _Ascen...
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...
Numbers 21:17 Israel H3478 sang H7891 (H8799) song H7892 up H5927 (H8798) well H875 sing H6030 ...
6). JOURNEY FROM OBOTH TO THE PISGAH LOOKING TOWARDS JESHIMON (NUMBERS 21:11). From this point on there is no shortage of water, as they move via the Wadi Zered to the River Arnon. And the abundance o...
THEN ISRAEL The spiritual order here is beautiful: (1) atonement (Numbers 21:8); (Numbers 21:9); (John 3:14); (John 3:15). (2) wat
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...
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...
_Spring up, O well._ A SONG OF THE PILGRIMAGE I. The needs of human pilgrimage. 1. How indispensable are the things which we need. 2. How many are the things which we need. 3. How constant are ou...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:10 These verses summarize Israel’s passage through the Transjordan, east of the Dead Sea, around the territory of Moab and through the land of the Amorites. Many of the plac...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:16 These verses celebrate finding an abundant WELL. ⇐...
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...
EXPOSITION THE END OF JOURNEYS, THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES (Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1)....
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...
Exodus 15:1; Exodus 15:2; Isaiah 12:1; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 12:5;...
Spring up — Heb. ascend, that is, let thy waters, which now lie hid below in the earth, ascend for our use. It is either a prediction that it should spring up, or a prayer that it might....