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Numbers 21:32

in Numbers 21

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

KJV

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

This verse in Numbers 21

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
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 prepared the way for the pastoral settlements in it which they not long after established Num 32:35.

This site's exposition

Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites

on Numbers 21:31-32

The verb settles what the last chapters had only promised, that Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. Jaazer is spied out and taken, and the tribes who see this pasture will ask for it at 32:1-5, where Reuben and Gad name Jazer and Gilead as a place for cattle. The request that splits the inheritance across Jordan begins with the ground taken in this verse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer,....

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֤חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971845 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • לְרַגֵּ֣לto spy out

    leragelH7270

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יַעְזֵ֔רJazer

    ya'zerH327013 times

  • וַֽיִּלְכְּד֖וּand they captured

    vaiyilkeduH3920121 times

  • בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָdaughters its

    benoteihaH1323588 times

  • וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁand it dispossessed

    vaiyireshH3423231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָאֱמֹרִ֥יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH56787 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • שָֽׁם׃[was] there

    shamH8033834 times

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

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

    Jeremiah 48:32

    I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 16:8–9

      For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 13:19

      Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,

  • Through

    Numbers 32:1

    Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:3

      “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 13:2

      And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

  • Through

    Numbers 32:3

    “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 48:34

      There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

    • Joshua 13:17

      to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

    • Numbers 32:34–38

      And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

  • Through

    Numbers 32:35

    Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:1

      Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.