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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 21:32

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its villages and drove out the Amorite who was there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heshbon;   Israel;   Jaazer;   Jazer;   Spies;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jazer;   Spies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amorites, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Jazer;   Serpents;   Sihon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Bashan;   Canaan;   Jabbok;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Og;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amorite (the);   Jaazer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Conquest of Canaan;   Jaazer;   Jazer;   Reba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Israel;   Jazer;   Jephthah;   Medeba;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Heshbon ;   Jaazer, Jazer ;   Sihon ;   Villages;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount hor;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jazer;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja-A'zer,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jazer;   Moab;   Moses;   Sea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Government;   Jaazer;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amori who were there.
King James Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Lexham English Bible
Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured its environs and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
English Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
New Century Version
After Moses sent spies to the town of Jazer, they captured the towns around it, forcing out the Amorites who lived there.
New English Translation
Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Amplified Bible
Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they overthrew its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
New American Standard Bible
Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses sent to searche out Iaazer, and they tooke the townes belonging thereto, and rooted out the Amorites that were there.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Contemporary English Version
Moses sent some men to explore the town of Jazer. Later, the Israelites captured the villages surrounding it and forced out the Amorites who lived there.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe sent men to reconnoiter Ya‘zer; they captured its towns and drove out the Emori who were there.
Darby Translation
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its dependent villages, and he dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses sent some men to look at the town of Jazer. Then the Israelites captured that town and the small towns that were around it. They forced the Amorites who were living there to leave.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they captured its villages, and destroyed the Amorites that were there.
Good News Translation
and Moses sent men to find the best way to attack the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured it and its surrounding towns and drove out the Amorites living there.
Christian Standard Bible®
After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its surrounding villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses sent out spyes vnto Iahesar, & they toke the townes belongynge therto, & coquered the Amorites yt were therin.
American Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses sent to searche out Iaezer, and they toke the townes belonging therto, & rooted out the Amorites that were therein.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses sent to spy out Iaazer, and they tooke the villages thereof, and droue out the Amorites that were there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.
English Revised Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Berean Standard Bible
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises sente men that schulden aspie Jaser, whos `townes thei token, and weldiden the dwelleris.
Young's Literal Translation
and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who [is] there,
Update Bible Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and the Amorites that were there were driven out.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses sent to explore Jaazer, and they took its villages, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
World English Bible
Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
New King James Version
Then Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
New Living Translation
After Moses sent men to explore the Jazer area, they captured all the towns in the region and drove out the Amorites who lived there.
New Life Bible
Then Moses sent men to spy out Jazer in secret. And Israel took its towns and took the place of the Amorites who were there.
New Revised Standard
Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they captured its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured the villages thereof, - and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.
Revised Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Contextual Overview

21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through your land; we will not turn into a field or into a vineyard; we will not drink waters of a well; we will go in the king's highway until we have passed over your border. 23 And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. And Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness, and they came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24 And Israel struck him by the mouth of the sword and seized his land, from Arnon to Jabbok, to the sons of Ammon. For the border of the sons of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its daughter villages. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites. And he had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken his land out of his hand, to Arnon. 27 On account of this the parable speakers say, Come to Heshbon! Let the city of Sihon be built and established! 28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. 30 We have cast them down; Heshbon has perished, even to Dibon; and we have ravaged even to Nophah, which is to Medeba.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jaazer: Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:35, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, Jeremiah 48:32, Jazer

Cross-References

Genesis 10:14
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim.
Genesis 14:13
And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew; for he was living among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. And these were possessor of a covenant with Abram.
Genesis 21:27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave to Abimelech, and both of them cut a covenant.
Genesis 26:8
And it happened when his days were many to him there, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window and saw; and, behold, Isaac was sporting with his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:14
And possessions of flocks and possessions of herds, and many slaves were his. And the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, the God of their father, let judge between us. And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Exodus 13:17
And it happened, in Pharaoh's sending away the people, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, though it was near. For God said, Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.
Judges 13:1
And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah, and Jehovah gave them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.
1 Samuel 18:3
And Jonathan and David cut a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer,.... Or Jazer, as it is called in Isaiah 16:9, another city that belonged to the Amorites, and which they had taken from the Moabites; and which came into the hands of the latter again, after the captivity of the ten tribes, as appears from the above places; according to Jerom s, it was fifteen miles distant from Heshbon:

and they took the villages thereof; not the spies, as Jarchi, but the Israelites under Moses; who upon the return of the spies, and the report they made, marched towards it, and took it, and all the towns and villages round about it; for it seems to have been a principal city:

and drove out the Amorites that were there; that dwelt there, and were in possession of it; otherwise they would not have attacked it, had it, and its villages, been in the hands of the Moabites.

s De locis Heb. fol. 92. G.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Numbers 32:35.


 
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