George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 21:3
Anathema. That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction. (Challoner) --- The explanation of Horma is inserted by St. Jerome. (Haydock)
Anathema. That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction. (Challoner) --- The explanation of Horma is inserted by St. Jerome. (Haydock)
Verse Numbers 21:3. _THE LORD HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF ISRAEL_] The whole of this verse appears to me to have been added after the days of Joshua. It is certain the Canaanites were not utterly destr...
HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE - Render it as: “the name of the place was called.” The transitive verb here is, by a common Hebrew idiom, equivalent to an impersonal one. HORMAH - i. e. “Ban.” See Nu...
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
SUCCESS OVER THE KING OF ARAD. Since Arad, the modern Tell Arad, 17 miles from Hebron, was in the south of Canaan, and a successful advance of the whole people in that direction would hardly have been...
CANAANITES. The Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch add "into his (i.e. Israel's) hand". AND THEIR CITIES. These destroyed after Israel came into the land. Compare Joshua 12:14.Judges 1:16; Judges 1:...
The attack made upon Israel by the Canaanites and Israel's victory over them at Hormah. The source of this passage is a great problem. The verses appear to imply a movement on the part of the Israeli...
_the name of the place was called Hormah_ In view of the expression -destroyed them and their cities," Hormah would seem to be a district and not a town; and perhaps it is so in Numbers 14:45 (-the Ho...
THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM, AND THEIR CITIES:— _They utterly devoted them and their cities;_ Dr. Waterland. Houbigant agrees with Dr. Waterland in this translation, _ipsorum urbes anathemate devovit;...
E. VICTORY AT HORMAH NUMBERS 21:1-3 TEXT Numbers 21:1. And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel,...
_AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF ISRAEL, AND DELIVERED UP THE CANAANITES; AND THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM AND THEIR CITIES: AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE HORMAH._ And they utterly destro...
21:3 Hormah. (a-30) See ch. 14.45....
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
This took place much later: see Joshua 12:14; Judges 1:16; Judges 1:17. Had they been victorious on this occasion the Israelites would naturally have marched directly northwards into Canaan; but, bein...
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 THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM AND THEIR CITIES. — The meaning of the verb which is here employed is to _devote to destruction,_ and hence to _destroy utterly._ It does not clearly appear whether thi...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֨ע יְהוָ֜ה בְּ קֹ֣ול יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל ו
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...
Such should be our conduct, with all our spiritual foes. Nothing but the total destruction of them can bring us peace. Reader! let you and I long for that hour, when we shall sing that song; Now is co...
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...
AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF ISRAEL,.... In their prayers and vows; with acceptance heard, and answered them according to their wish: AND DELIVERED UP THE CANAANITES: into their hands, gave...
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah. Ver. 3. _Delivered up the...
_They utterly destroyed them_ That is, as many of them as they took at that time; but it is plain that all these Canaanites were not destroyed at this time, for we find the king of Arad and the king o...
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...
And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, He heard their earnest prayer, in which they placed their entire trust in Him alone, AND DELIVERED UP THE CANAANITES, gave them into the hands of Israel;...
The Journey around the Land of Edom. the king of arad subdued....
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...
HORMAH: that is, utter destruction...
1-3 Before the people began their march round the country of Edom, the king of Arad, a Canaanite, who inhabited the southern part of the country, attacked them in the wilderness, and took some prisone...
THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM: when? ANSW. Either, 1. Some time after this, under Joshua, who subdued, among others, _the king of Arad_, JOSHUA 12:14. And so this is mentioned here by anticipation, that...
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 21:3 LORD H3068 listened H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 Israel H3478 delivered H5414 (H8799) Canaanites H3669 dest
CHAPTER 21 FROM VICTORY THROUGH CHASTENING TO FURTHER VICTORY. The death of Aaron did indicate a new era. In this chapter we cover the first defeat of ‘the Canaanites', the dire warning and chastisem...
HORMAH That is, utter destruction....
Numbers 21:1. And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israe...
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...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:1__ This victory at Hormah marks a turning point. From now on, one victory follows another until they reach the Jordan, ready to enter Canaan. ⇐
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:2 DEVOTE THEIR CITIES TO DESTRUCTION. Israel promised to keep no spoils of war for themselves if God gave them victory. Later God ordered that all Canaanite cities that resi...
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 LAST MARCH: FROM MOUNT HOR TO JORDAN (CHAPTER 21-22:1). EPISODE OF THE KING OF ARAD (Numbers 21:1)....
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...
1 Samuel 30:30; Deuteronomy 1:44; Joshua 12:14; Numbers 14:45;...
They utterly destroyed them — Neither Moses nor the whole body of the people did this but a select number sent out to punish that king and people, who were so fierce and malicious that they came out o...