King James Version
Numbers 21:32 in the King James Version says “And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.”
Numbers 21:32 · KJV
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
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.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to spy out”
H7270to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e., slander); to lead about
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and they took”
H3920to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
“the villages”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“thereof and drove out”
H3423to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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