KJV King James Version
And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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Numbers 21:2
And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
WEB World English Bible
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.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Israel voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, ‘If Thou dost certainly give this people into my hand, then I have devoted their cities;’
Surrounding context — Numbers 21
1 And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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וַיִּדַּ֨רH5087 · na.darto vowיִשְׂרָאֵ֥לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelנֶ֛דֶרH5088 · ne.dervowלַֽיהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוַיֹּאמַ֑רH559 · a.marto sayאִם־H518 · imifנָתֹ֨ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveתִּתֵּ֜ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעָ֤םH5971 · ampeopleהַזֶּה֙H2088 · zehthisבְּיָדִ֔יH3027 · yadhandוְהַֽחֲרַמְתִּ֖יH2763 · cha.ramto devote/destroyאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עָרֵיהֶֽם׃H5892 · irexcitement
Cross-references
Genesis 28:20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,Judges 11:30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,1 Samuel 1:11And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.Joshua 6:26And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.2 Samuel 15:7-8And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.Psalm 56:12-13Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.Psalm 116:18I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,Psalm 132:2How he sware unto the LORD, [and] vowed unto the mighty [God] of Jacob;Leviticus 27:28-29Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, [both] of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing [is] most holy unto the LORD.Deuteronomy 13:15Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.Joshua 6:17And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.1 Corinthians 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
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