Numbers 21 · Verse 32

Numbers 21:32

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Numbers 21:32, King James Version

Numbers 21:32 in other translations

BSBAfter Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
WEBMoses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
ASVAnd Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
YLTand Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who is there,
DARBYAnd Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its dependent villages, and he dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
BBEAnd Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
WebsterAnd Moses sent to explore Jaazer, and they took its villages, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

What does Numbers 21:32 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 21:21-35

Sihon went with his forces against Israel, out of his own borders, without provocation, and so ran upon his own ruin. The enemies of God's church often perish by the counsels they think most wisely taken. Og, king of Bashan, instead of being warned by the fate of his neighbours, to make peace with Israel, makes war with them, which proves in like manner his destruction. Wicked men do their utmost to secure…

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Numbers 21:32 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤חvai.yish.Lachand he sentH7971
מֹשֶׁה֙mo.ShehMosesH4872
לְרַגֵּ֣לle.ra.Gelto spy outH7270
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יַעְזֵ֔רya'.ZerJazerH3270
וַֽיִּלְכְּד֖וּvai.yil.ke.Duand they capturedH3920
בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָbe.no.Tei.hadaughters itsH1323
וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁvai.yi.reshand it dispossessedH3423
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָאֱמֹרִ֥יha.'e.mo.Rithe Amorite[s]H567
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whoH834
שָֽׁם\׃Sham[was] thereH8033

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Cross references for Numbers 21:32

  • Jeremiah 48:32

    O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

  • Numbers 32:1

    Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

  • Numbers 32:35

    And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

  • Numbers 32:3

    Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

  • Isaiah 16:8-9

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

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Jaazer.
32:1,35; Isa 16:8,9; Jer 48:32
Jazer.

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Context

  • Numbers 21:31

    Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

  • Numbers 21:32

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

  • Numbers 21:33

    And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.

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Numbers 21:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y envió Moisés á reconocer á Jazer; y tomaron sus aldeas, y echaron al Amorrheo que estaba allí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Moïse envoya pour explorer Jahzer; et ils prirent les villages de son ressort, et en dépossédèrent les Amoréens qui y étaient.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Mose sandte Männer aus, um Jaser auszukundschaften; und sie nahmen seine Tochterstädte ein, und er trieb die Amoriter aus, die daselbst waren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Misitque Moyses qui explorarent Jazer: cujus ceperunt viculos, et possederunt habitatores.