King James Version
Numbers 33:51 in the King James Version says “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;”
Numbers 33:51 · KJV
And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab. Abelshittim: or, the plains of Shittim
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“unto them When ye are passed over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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