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Numbers 21:2

in Numbers 21

So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

KJV

And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

This verse in Numbers 21

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south

on Numbers 21:1-3

Israel vows before the battle and the terms are destruction of the cities rather than plunder. The place is called Hormah, a name Numbers 14:45 had already used for the ground where the fathers were driven back after going up without leave, and Judges 1:17 records the name being given again by Judah and Simeon. Keil and Delitzsch read 14:45 as using the later name in advance, and the three passages stand in the text as they are written.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיִּדַּ֨רand it vowed

    vaiyidarH508731 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֥לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • נֶ֛דֶרa vow

    nederH508860 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • וַיֹּאמַ֑רand it said

    vaiyomarH5595305 times

  • אִם־<if>

    ʾim-H5181069 times

  • נָתֹ֨ןcertainly [if] <to give>

    natonH54142011 times

  • תִּתֵּ֜ןyou will give

    titenH54142011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָעָ֤םthe people

    haamH59711873 times

  • הַזֶּה֙<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • בְּיָדִ֔יin hand my

    beyadiH30271618 times

  • וְהַֽחֲרַמְתִּ֖יand I will totally destroy

    vehacharamtiH2763

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • עָרֵיהֶֽם׃cities their

    ʾareihemH58921090 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

    Joshua 6:26

    At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations;…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 16:34

      In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 1:11

    And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then…

    it leads to

    • Judges 13:5

      For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will…

    • Numbers 6:5

      For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let…

    • Genesis 29:32

      And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

  • Through

    Genesis 28:20

    Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

    it leads to

    • 1 Timothy 6:8

      But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.

    • 2 Samuel 15:8

      For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

    • Genesis 31:13

      I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

  • Through

    Judges 11:30

    Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,

    it leads to

    • Genesis 28:20

      Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

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 on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.