Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 21:32
Jaazer One of the cities of Moab, formerly taken from them by Sihon, and now taken from him by the Israelites.
Jaazer One of the cities of Moab, formerly taken from them by Sihon, and now taken from him by the Israelites.
JAAZER - To he identified probably with the ruins Sir or es-Sir 10 miles north of Heshbon. The occupation of it by the Israelites virtually completed their conquest of the Amorite kingdom; and prepare...
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...
AND MOSES SENT TO SPY OUT JAAZER— Another city belonging to Moab, but now in the possession of the Amorites, which the Israelites did not take at first. It should seem, from ch. Numbers 32:1. 2 Samuel...
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...
_THUS ISRAEL DWELT IN THE LAND OF THE AMORITES._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
21:32 villages, (a-13) Lit. 'daughters.' see Note at 2 Samuel 20:19 ....
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
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֤ח מֹשֶׁה֙ לְ רַגֵּ֣ל אֶת ־יַעְזֵ֔
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...
_Jazer, a famous city, 15 miles from Hesebon, given afterwards to the Levites. Moses " took the Amorrhites who were there" prisoners, according to the Hebrew; or, "drove them away," (Septuagint) putti...
The same observation meets us, concerning the king of Bashan and his courts, as the king of the Amorites and his. The victories of Israel were all of covenant engagements, and all accomplished by the...
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 MOSES SENT TO SPY OUT JAAZER,.... Or Jazer, as it is called in Isaiah 16:9, another city that belonged to the Amorites, and which they had taken from the Moabites; and which came into the hands of...
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 Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, a city toward the northeast, near the territory of the Ammonites, AND THEY TOOK THE VILLAGES THEREOF AND DROVE OUT THE AMORITES THAT WERE THERE, thus completing the c...
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...
JAAZER; one of the cities of Moab, formerly taken from them by Sihon, and now taken from him by the Israelites, NUMBERS 32:1,3,35; and after the decay or destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes,...
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 21:32 Moses H4872 sent H7971 (H8799) out H7270 (H8763) Jazer H3270 took H3920 (H8799) villages...
2). THE DEFEAT OF OG, KING OF BASHAN (NUMBERS 21:32). The defeat of Sihon did not pass unnoticed and when Israel advanced even further northwards Og, king of Bashan decided that enough was enough. Gat...
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...
_Og the king of Bashan went out against them._ WAR WITH THE KING OF BASHAN When God had removed one great rub out of Israel’s way to Canaan, namely, Sihon, king of Heshbon, now starts up another _rem...
_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 21:31__ The campaign against OG is reported more fully in Deuteronomy 3:1. This large area in northern Transjordan was later settl
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...
Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 48:32; Numbers 32:1; Numbers 32:35
Jaazer — One of the cities of Moab formerly taken from them by Sihon, and now taken from him by the Israelites....