Mínshùjì 21:3

3 Yēhéhuá yīngyún le Yǐsèliè rén , bǎ Jiānán rén jiāofù tāmen , tāmen jiù bǎ Jiānán rén hé Jiānán rén de chéngyì jìn xíng huǐmiè . nà dìfang de míng biàn jiào Héĕrmǎ ( héĚr mǎ jiù shì huǐmiè de yìsi ) .

Mínshùjì 21:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:3

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel
In their prayers and vows; with acceptance heard, and answered them according to their wish:

and delivered up the Canaanites:
into their hands, gave them victory over them:

and they utterly destroyed them and their cities;
that is, "anathematized" them, and devoted them to destruction; for as yet they did not actually destroy them, since we read of Arad afterwards, ( Joshua 12:14 ) , but this they did in Joshua's time, when the whole land of Canaan came into their hands; for had they entered the land now, and took and destroyed the cities belonging to Arad, they would doubtless have proceeded, and pursued their conquests, and not have returned into the wilderness again to go round about Edom, in order to enter another way; many think, as Aben Ezra observes on ( Numbers 21:1 ) that this section was written by Joshua, after the land was subdued:

and he called the name of the place Hormah;
which before was called Zephath, and it seems to have its name from various disasters which happened at this place; as the defeat of the Israelites by the Amalekites, ( Numbers 14:45 ) , and here of the Canaanites by the Israelites, and afterwards of the inhabitants of this place by Judah and Simeon, ( Judges 1:17 ) it had its name from "Cherem", the anathema or destruction it was devoted to.

Mínshùjì 21:3 In-Context

1 Zhù nán dì de Jiānán rén yà lā de wáng , tīngshuō Yǐsèliè rén cóng yà tā lín lù lái , jiù hé Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn , lǔ le tāmen jǐ gèrén .

2 Yǐsèliè rén xiàng Yēhéhuá fā yuàn shuō , nǐ ruò jiàng zhè mín jiāofù wǒ shǒu , wǒ jiù bǎ tāmende chéngyì jìn xíng huǐmiè .

3 Yēhéhuá yīngyún le Yǐsèliè rén , bǎ Jiānán rén jiāofù tāmen , tāmen jiù bǎ Jiānán rén hé Jiānán rén de chéngyì jìn xíng huǐmiè . nà dìfang de míng biàn jiào Héĕrmǎ ( héĚr mǎ jiù shì huǐmiè de yìsi ) .

4 Tāmen cóng hé Ěr shān qǐ xíng , wǎng Hónghǎi nà tiaó lù zǒu , yào rǎo guò Yǐdōng dì . bǎixìng yīn zhè lù nán xíng , xīn zhōng shén shì fán zào ,

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