Arnon. Hence this territory, which formerly belonged to Moab, being taken in a just war, the Moabites could not lawfully retain it, as they attempted to do under Jephte, Judges xi. 13. (Grotius, Jur. iii. 6.) --- Hesebon, or Esbus, was the capital, and lay over-against Jericho, twenty miles from the Jordan.
Verse Numbers 21:26. _FOR HESHBON WAS THE CITY OF SIHON, C._] It appears therefore that the territory now taken from Sihon by the Israelites was taken from a former king of Moab, in commemoration of w...
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
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...
_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...
HESHBON—THE CITY OF SIHON— Heshbon was the capital city of the Amorites, and their king's seat; and _Sihon_ is thought to be the name common to all the kings of the Amorites, as Pharaoh was to the kin...
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...
_FOR HESHBON WAS THE CITY OF SIHON THE KING OF THE AMORITES, WHO HAD FOUGHT AGAINST THE FORMER KING OF MOAB, AND TAKEN ALL HIS LAND OUT OF HIS HAND, EVEN UNTO ARNON._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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
AND TAKEN ALL HIS LAND... — _i.e.,_ the land between the Arnon and the Jabbok, as it is explained in the last clause of the verse....
כִּ֣י חֶשְׁבֹּ֔ון עִ֗יר סִיחֹ֛ן מֶ֥לֶךְ הָ אֱ
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...
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...
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...
For (k) Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. (k) For if it had been the M...
Moab it should seem had heretofore those cities, but now being in the possession of the Amorite, they were to be conquered by Israel by the divine appointment. Genesis 15:18. But, Reader, it is sweet...
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...
26._For Heshbon was the city of Sihon. _It is not without cause that Moses relates how the country near Heshbon had passed into the hands of the Amorites, because a long time afterwards this was sough...
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...
FOR HESHBON WAS THE CITY OF SIHON THE KING OF THE AMORITES,.... His royal city, where he kept his palace, where he had resided for some time, and perhaps some of his predecessors; and therefore being...
_Heshbon was the city of Sihon_ This is added as a reason why Israel took possession of this land, because it was not now the land of the Moabites, but in the possession of the Amorites. _The former k...
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...
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, his capital, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon, all the territory from...
THE OVERTHROW OF SIHON AND OG...
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...
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...
THE CITY OF SIHON: this is added as a reason why Israel took possession of this land, notwithstanding God's prohibition of meddling with them or their land, DEUTERONOMY 2:9, because it was not now the...
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 21:26 Heshbon H2809 city H5892 Sihon H5511 king H4428 Amorites H567 fought H3898 (H8738) former H7223 king
THE POSSESSION OF THE CITIES OF SIHON (NUMBERS 21:25). Numbers 21:25 ‘And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.' Having...
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...
_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,...
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
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...
Numbers 21:26...
Was the city of Sihon — This is added as a reason why Israel took possession of this land, because it was not now the land of the Moabites, but in the possession of the Amorites. The former king — The...