Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
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Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
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- Judges 11:20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
- Deuteronomy 29:7-8 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them. We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
- Numbers 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
- Deuteronomy 2:30-32 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today. Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.” Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
- Isaiah 15:4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
- Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to…
Num 21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Ver. 23. And Sihon would not.] He durst not trust them: men muse as they use: God had also hardened his heart, that he might come forth to fetch his own destruction. {Deu 2:30} Judgment need not go to find wicked men out; they run to meet their bane.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Jahaz, a city, of which see Deu 2:32; Jer…
Jahaz, a city, of which see Deu 2:32; Jer 48:21.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king…
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites,.... His royal city, where he kept his palace, where he had resided for some time, and perhaps some of his predecessors; and therefore being now in his possession when taken by the Israelites, they had a good right and title to keep it, and dwell in it: and indeed this is here given as a reason of it:
who had fought against the former king of Moab; either the king that reigned before Balak, or some king of Moab, that reigned formerly, against whom one of the name of Sihon, which might be a common name to the kings of the Amorites, as Pharaoh to the Egyptians, had engaged in war:
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and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon; and had been in the hands of the Amorites some years; and therefore the Moabites had no reason to object to the Israelites dwelling in it, and possessing it, which they had not taken from them, but from the Amorites in a lawful war. And for proof of this, reference is had to the bards and poets of those times, who were the persons that transmitted in verse the history of famous actions to posterity.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Jasa was not far from the Arnon, between Medaba…
Jasa was not far from the Arnon, between Medaba and Dibon, Isaias xv. 4. (Eusebius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. Jahaz — “A place trodden down.” See Jos_13:18,…
23. Jahaz — “A place trodden down.” See Jos_13:18, note.
Fought against Israel — According to Josephus the Amorite army contained every man in the nation fit to bear arms. Being unable to fight when away from the shelter of their cities, and being galled by the slings and arrows of the Hebrews, in their intense thirst the Amorites rushed to the stream, and to the shelter of the ravine of the Arnon, and were slaughtered in vast numbers.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. the wilderness] See on Num_21:13.
23. the wilderness] See on Num_21:13.
Jahaz] Deu_2:32, Isa_15:4, Jer_48:34. The form Jahzah is used in Jos_13:18; Jos_21:36, Jdg_11:20 (Heb.), Jer_48:21, 1Ch_6:78. The site is unknown, but it evidently lay on the eastern boundary of Sihon’s territory, since he came thither to prevent Israel from crossing it. In agreement with this it is twice mentioned with Kedemoth (Jos_13:18; Jos_21:36 f.), which is the name of ‘the wilderness’ in Deu_2:26, and twice seems to be named as a limit of Moab, at some distance from Heshbon (Isa_15:4, Jer_48:34).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he came to Jahaz, or Jahzah, a place…
And he came to Jahaz, or Jahzah, a place of which we know nothing.
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