Numbers 21:17

17 Then Israel sang this song about the well: "Make your water spring up! Sing to the well,

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 Arnon and the slopes of the valleys that go down to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab...."

16 From there they went to Beer [Well]. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people, and I will give them water."

17 Then Israel sang this song about the well: "Make your water spring up! Sing to the well,

18 the well dug by princes, dug out by the nobles of the people with their scepters and staffs." From the desert they went to Mattanah,

19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,