Numbers 21:17

17 At that time the people of Israel sang this song: "Wells, produce your water; And we will greet it with a song -

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 slope of the valleys that extend to the town of Ar and toward the border of Moab."

16 From there they went on to a place called Wells, where the Lord said to Moses, "Bring the people together, and I will give them water."

17 At that time the people of Israel sang this song: "Wells, produce your water; And we will greet it with a song -

18 The well dug by princes And by leaders of the people, Dug with a royal scepter And with their walking sticks." They moved from the wilderness to Mattanah,

19 and from there they went on to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,