Z Either by themfclves, or by others whom they commanded to do it. h Or, with the lawgiver, i. e, Moſes, they together with Moſes, or they by Moſes his direttion and appointment, which is ſignified, verſe 16. i Which arehere mentioned,cither i.as the enſigns of their aut:0:1ty, Judg. 5. 14. by which they gave' this command of dig- ging: 2. as the inſtruments of their work, not that they did for- mally and effe&ually dig the well or receptacle for the water, for which ſpades were more proper than ſtaves, but that «s M:ſes ſmote the rock with his rod, fo they ſtruck the earth with their ftaves making only ſome fmal) impreſſion for form ſke, or as a figit that - God would cauſe the water to fiow forth our of the earth where they ſmote it, as he did before out of the rock.
19 And from Matranah to Nahalicl, and from Naha- liel tro. Bamoth &.
k See the Notes on verſe 16.
2v And from Bamoth i» the valley ]; that is in the # countrey of Moab, to the top of || Piſgzh », which FHeb:#l ooked toward || Jelhimon. || Or, he
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: : 7 5 ll, I Or, the valley, «hich might be called Bamoth, not becauſe it was 10+ the " I . A . * : - = . _ 5 , a place naturally high, bur trom div:rs other re-fons which may be ,,;14; of
eaſily gueſſed. Or, to the valy, or to that walley, that fawous or rather infamous valley, t> wit, of Abel-ſhiztim, Numb. 33+ 49. v here they committed thoſe foul abominations recorded Numb 25. m This was the top of rhoſe high-hills of 4barim ; of which ſee Dent. 3.17, 27. and 32.49. and 34. 1, 6. 21 Andifraeitent meſſengers » unto Sihon the king of the Amorirtes, faying, |
2 Py Gods allowance, that fo S:hons malice might be the more e- vident and inexcuſable,and thar their title ro his country more clear inche judgments of all men, as being gotten by a juſt war, into which they were forced for their own cefence.
22 Lerme paſs through thy iand ; we will not turn + p,,,, , into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will nor 4, Judg drink of the waters of the well : but we will go aiong 11. 1g. by the kings high way, unti} we be paſt thy borders o,
o They ſpoke v hat they ſeriouſly intended and would have done, if he had given them quier patſag- : tur withal they knew that Sihon would not do it, and'har he would wi hſtand them, and that they ſhould ſui due him and take his land, as ©0d had troli them before they ſent this mNage, as appeais from Deut. 2. 24,26, 27.and accordingly God hardened his ſpirit, and made his heart obſtinate,fo: this end, that he might deliver him into Iſraels hand there, verſe zo. And no wonder, for he and his people were Amorites, and, therefore devoted to deſtiuCtion, as all that people were. |
22* And Sihon woyid not {utter Iſrael to paſs through * Deut.
his border : but Sihon gathered all his people together, 29- 8.
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and went out againſt Iſrael into the wilderneſs: and he came to Jahzzp. ard fought againſt Iſrael. ? Acity, of + hich ſee Deut. 2. 32. Fer. 48. 21-
24 * indIfrael ſmore him with the edge of the ſword, * Deut. + and poſleiied his land from Arnon q unto Jabbok r,even 32.&29.7 unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the J9{-12. children of Ammon was ſtrong s. I, B
q Or, which reached from 4rnon, 8&c. ſuch ſupplements being ve- |, , "= and fo here is contained a deſcrpprion or limitation of ,, ,,,
Amos2.9
the children of Ammon ; and then the foilowing words, for the border of the chilarenof Ammon was ſtrong, come in very fitly, not as a reaſon why the Iſraelites did notor could not conquer the Ammonites, for they were abſolutely forbidden to meddle with them, Deur. 3 8. bur as a reaſon why $S:hon could not enla' ge his conqueſts and em« pire to the Ammonites,. a+ he had done to 6 Moabites. v A river by » hich the countries of 47mm and Moab were in part bounded and div'ded. « Either by the advantage of the river, or by their ſtrong holds in their frontiers.
25 4nd rac} took allthefe cities ; and Ifrael dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites t : in Heſhbon, and in all the + vill-ges thereof. |
t Having deſtroyea theantient Inhabitants, Devr. 2. 34,
26 For Heſl:bon was the city of Sihon « the king of the Amorites, who had fought againftthe former king of Moab x, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. | 2:
This is added as a reaſon why 1-22! took poſſeſſion of this land, notwithſtanding God's prohibition of meddling witch th-m or their land, Dent. 2. 9. becauſe it was not now the Jand of the Me25ites,bur had been ſome time ſince taken from them, and in the poil-fion of the Amoriter, x ( i,e,) The Predeceſſor of Balak, who was the pre- ſent King.
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Judgment of Gol in ſpoiling the ſpoilers, inſulted over their conquered Enemies. z Theſe are the words el-
*Pſal.r35. 10,11.and
NUMBERS.
27 Wherefore they that ſpeak in proverbs y, ſay,
Come into Heſhbon &: let the city of Sihon « be built | ſefſed hisJand.
and prepared. 8 FY | y The poets or other ingenious perſons, to wit, of the Amorites or Canaanites, who made this following Song of Triumph over the
vanquiſhed Moabites : which is here brought in, partly as a proof
that this was now Sihor's land, and partly as an evidence of the juſt and ſubduing thoſe who
ther of $Sihon ſpeaking thus to his people, or ofthe people exhorting one another to come and poſſeſs and repair the citywhich they had taken. » That which once was the royal city of the king of Moab, but now is the city of Sihon.
28 For there is a * fire « gone out of Heſhbon 6, a
flame from the city of Sihon : it hath conſumed Ar of
Moab c, and the lords of the high places 4 of Arnon.