Numbers 21:24

_AND ISRAEL SMOTE HIM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND POSSESSED HIS LAND FROM ARNON UNTO JABBOK, EVEN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON: FOR THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON WAS STRONG._ Israel ... possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon. The brook х_ NAACHAL_ (H5157)] Jabbok (called "the river of Gad," 2 Samuel 24:5), now Nahr ez-Zerka, which rises near the ruins of Rabbath-Ammon (Amman), east of the mountains, flows by a deep chasm between the towering range of Jebel 'Ajlun and the Belka, and enters the Jordan opposite Nabulus. The territory comprised within these two rivers was in early times called the land of Gilead" (Numbers 32:1;...

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 wisely taken. Og, king of Bashan, instead of being warned by the fate of his neighbours, to make peace with Israel, makes war with them, which proves in like manner his destruction. Wicked men do their utmost to secure themselves and their possessions against the judgments of God; but all in vain, when the day comes on which they must fall. God gave Israel success, while Moses was with them, that he might see the beginning of the glorious work, though he must not live to see it finished. This was, in comparison, but as the day of small things, yet it was an earnest of great things. We must prepare for fresh conflicts and enemies. We must make no peace or truce with the powers of darkness, nor...

Jabbok (now Wady Zerka: compare Genesis 32:22) runs eastward under Rabbah of the children of Ammon, thence westward, and reaches the Jordan, 45 miles north of the Arnon. It was between Rabbah and Gerasa that it formed the Ammonite boundary....

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 occur two other stations, Zahnonah and Phunon, between Mount Hor and Oboth. Phunon may be the Pinou of Genesis 36:41, but it is a mere conjecture. All we

AND ISRAEL SMOTE HIM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD,.... Slew him and his army, entirely routed them, and got a complete victory over them; God giving them up into their hands, who otherwise were a very strong, powerful, and warlike people; see Amos 2:9 AND POSSESSED HIS LAND FROM ARNON UNTO JABBOK; two rivers, the one to the south, the other to the north of his country; the one was the boundary of his country between him and the Moabites, the other the boundary of his country between him and the Ammonites, as it follows: EVEN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON; FOR THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON WAS STRONG; which is given as a reason why the Israelites proceeded no further in their conquest; there was another reason for that, which was the order of the Lord not to distress the Ammonites, nor meddle with them; though Jarchi makes this prohibition to be their strength,

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 again (Numbers 21:10) 5. Sihon and Og (Numbers 21:21) The first victory is here recorded. The Lord delivered Canaanites into the hands of Israel, and according to their vow they utterly destroyed them and their cities. But in spite of this victory the people became again discouraged because of the w

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 was crossed. Numbers 21:23. Jahaz: the Jahzah of Jeremiah 48:21, probably not far from Dibon. Numbers 21:24. Jabbck: the modern Nahr ez-Zerka. WAS STRONG: read (LXX) was Jazer (Numbers 21:32)....

Sihon, refusing passage through his territory, was conquered, and his towns were occupied....

POSSESSED HIS LAND FROM ARNON UNTO JABBOK, EVEN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON— This is a brief description of the extent of Sihon's country, which reached from the river Arnon, the bound of the Moabites country on the south, ch. Numbers 22:36 unto the river Jabbok, which was the bound of the Ammonites country on the north, Deuteronomy 3:16. Joshua 12:2; Joshua 13:10. _For the border of the children of Ammon was strong;_ Houbigant renders, _for the borders, &c. were fortified;_ and this is mentioned as one reason why the children of Israel did not attack their country. We are farther told, that they were forbidden to meddle wi

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 into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23. And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 24. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25. And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out