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Deuteronomy 2:32

in Deuteronomy 2

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz.

KJV

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Then Sihon came out against us,.... Perceiving they were upon their march towards his land or into it, he gathered all his people and went out of Heshbon their capital city, where he resided: he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz; a city which he had taken from the king of Moab, and which in later times, after the captivity of the ten tribes, came into their hands again, Isa 15:4; see Gill on Num 21:21.

This site's exposition

Then Sihon came out against us

on Deuteronomy 2:32-33

Jahaz is where Numbers 21:23-24 puts the same battle, and Sihon comes out into the open rather than holding Heshbon behind its walls. The Hebrew consonantal text at verse 33 reads his son where the reading tradition gives his sons, and Gill notes the difference along with the rabbinic comment that one son was as mighty as his father. The King James follows the plural.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵא֩and he came forth

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • סִיחֹ֨ןSihon

    sichonH5511 →37 times

  • לִקְרָאתֵ֜נוּto meet us

    likratenuH7122 →139 times

  • ה֧וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • עַמּ֛וֹpeople his

    amoH5971 →1873 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • יָֽהְצָה׃Jahaz towards

    yahetzahH3096 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 21:23–30But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.3 worksJudges 11:20–23But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.2 worksPsalms 136:19Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.2 worksPsalms 135:11Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.2 worksNehemiah 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.2 worksPsalms 120:7I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 2:12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)2 worksIsaiah 15:4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.2 worksJoshua 24:8Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.2 worksNumbers 21:1When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 9:22

    You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:21–35

      Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 11:23

      So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then…

    • Joshua 10:11

      As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by…

    • Deuteronomy 3:1–17

      Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

  • Through

    Psalms 135:11

    Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 29:7

      When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 12:7–24

      And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…

    • Nehemiah 9:22

      You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

  • Through

    Psalms 136:19

    Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:30–36

      But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as…

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 2 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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