The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
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The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
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And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
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And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. —
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Passages linked to Numbers 33:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 21:1-9 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.” Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah. They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey. The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!” Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died. The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people. Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto…
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... What was to be said, being what concerned the whole body of the people:
when ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; near to which they now were, and Moses was about to leave them; and therefore it was the more necessary to give them some instructions and directions what they should do, when they were come into it.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 40. King Arad — A place, and not a…
40. King Arad — A place, and not a person. Num_21:1, note.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 40. A fragmentary statement strangely inserted, perhaps originally as…
40. A fragmentary statement strangely inserted, perhaps originally as a marginal note by a scribe. See on Num_21:1-3.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (40) And King Arad . . . —See Num_21:1,…
(40) And King Arad . . . —See Num_21:1, and Note.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And king Arad... heard of the coming. See on…
And king Arad... heard of the coming. See on Num_21:1. The introduction of this notice, for which there seems no motive, and which has no assignable connection with the context, is extremely perplexing. It is not simply a fragment which has slipped in by what we call accident, (like Deu_10:6, Deu_10:7) for the longer statement in Num_21:1-3 occupies the same position in the historical narrative immediately after the death of Aaron. It is difficult to suppose that Moses wrote this verse and left it as it stands; it would rather seem as if a later hand had begun to copy out a statement from some earlier document in which it had itself perhaps become misplaced and had not gone on with it.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The Canaanite, the king of Arad
The Canaanite, the king of Arad
"The Canaanite king of Arad"
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Arad
This was the name of a Canaanite city. (See: How to Translate Names)
heard of the coming of the people of Israel
"heard that the people of Israel were coming"
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Canaan
king
desert
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