Numbers 21:17

17 Then the Israelites sang this song: "Well, flow up! Sing about it!

Numbers 21:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:17

Then Israel sang this song
Being affected with the free favour and good will of God towards them:

spring up, O well;
for the springing up of which they prayed in faith, believing in the promise of God, that it would spring up; and so encouraged one another not only to believe it, but even to sing on account of it before it actually did:

sing ye unto it;
or on account of it praise the Lord for it; or "answer to it" ^F13, it being their manner to sing their songs by responses, or alternately.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (hl wne) "respondete ei", Montanus; "alternis canite ei", Tigurine version, Piscator.

Numbers 21:17 In-Context

15 and the ravines that extend to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.

16 From there they marched to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people, and I'll give them water."

17 Then the Israelites sang this song: "Well, flow up! Sing about it!

18 The well that the officials dug, that the officials of the people hollowed out with the ruler's scepter and their staffs." They marched from the desert to Mattanah;

19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel; from Nahaliel to Bamoth;