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Numbers 21:21-23
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Numbers 21:21-23
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The Victory over Sihon and Og
21 [a] Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,[b]
22 “Let us[c] pass through your land;[d] we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.” 23 But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he[e] gathered all his forces[f] together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When[g] he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
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- Numbers 21:21 sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.
- Numbers 21:21 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”
- Numbers 21:22 tn The Hebrew text uses the singular in these verses to match the reference to “Israel.”
- Numbers 21:22 tc Smr has “by the King’s way I will go. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.”
- Numbers 21:23 tn Heb “Sihon.”
- Numbers 21:23 tn Heb “people.”
- Numbers 21:23 tn The clause begins with a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive, but may be subordinated to the next preterite as a temporal clause.
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