“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
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“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
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Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past thy borders.
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'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'
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Passages linked to Numbers 21:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 20:17 “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we…
Num 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king’s [high] way, until we be past thy borders.
Ver. 22. Let me pass.] {See Trapp on "Num 20:17"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They spoke what they seriously intended and would have…
They spoke what they seriously intended and would have done, if he had given them quiet passage; but withal they knew that Sihon would not do it, and that he would withstand them, and that they should subdue him and take his land, as God had told them before they sent this message, as appears from Deu 2:21,26,27; and accordingly God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, for this end, that he might deliver him into Israel’s hand there, Num 21:31. And no wonder, for he and his people were Amorites, and therefore devoted to destruction, as all that people were.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Israel took all these cities,.... Which lay between…
And Israel took all these cities,.... Which lay between the rivers Arnon and Jabbok; their particular names may be seen in Num 32:3,
and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites; being given to the Reubenites and Gadites, who inhabited them, as their possession and inheritance, Num 32:2,
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in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof; or "daughters thereof" (q). Heshbon was the metropolis or mother city, and all the towns and villages adjacent were as daughters to it; of which city more is said in the following verses; see Gill on Isa 15:4.
(q) "filiabus ejus", Montanus, Munster, Fagius, Grotius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Let me pass - They spoke what they seriously…
Let me pass - They spoke what they seriously intended and would have done, if he had given them quiet passage.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Wells. We shall content ourselves with the torrents. They…
Wells. We shall content ourselves with the torrents. They had only to travel about thirty miles. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. the king’s way] See on Num_20:17.
22. the king’s way] See on Num_20:17.
until we have passed through thy territory] And similarly in the next verse.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let me pass through thy land. Cf. Num_20:17. Israel…
Let me pass through thy land. Cf. Num_20:17. Israel was not commanded to spare the Amorites, indeed he was under orders to smite them, (Deu_2:24) but that did not prevent his approaching them in the first instance with words of peace. If Sihon had hearkened, no doubt Israel would have passed directly on to Jordan, and he would at least have been spared for the present.
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