Nombres 21:14

14 C'est pourquoi il est dit dans le livre des Guerres de l'Eternel: ...Vaheb en Supha, et les torrents de l'Arnon,

Nombres 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:14

Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord
A history of wars in former times, which the Lord had suffered to be in the world; and which, as Aben Ezra thinks, reached from the times of Abraham and so might begin with the battle of the kings in his time, and take in others in later times, and particularly those of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and his conquests of some parts of Moab; and to this book, which might be written by some one of those nations, Moses refers in proof of what he here says:

what he did in the Red sea;
that is, what Sihon king of the Amorites did, or the Lord by him, "at Vaheb in Suphah", as the words may be rendered; either against a king, or rather city, of Moab, whose name was Vaheb, in the borders of the land of Moab, or how he destroyed that city Vaheb with a storm or terrible assault ^F12:

and in the brooks of Arnon:
some places situated on the streams of that river, which were taken by the Amorites from the Moabites, as the book quoted plainly testified.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Vid. L'Empereur. Not. in Mosis Kimchi (odoiporia) p. 195.

Nombres 21:14 In-Context

12 De là ils partirent, et ils campèrent dans la vallée de Zéred.

13 De là ils partirent, et ils campèrent de l'autre côté de l'Arnon, qui coule dans le désert en sortant du territoire des Amoréens; car l'Arnon est la frontière de Moab, entre Moab et les Amoréens.

14 C'est pourquoi il est dit dans le livre des Guerres de l'Eternel: ...Vaheb en Supha, et les torrents de l'Arnon,

15 et le cours des torrents, qui s'étend du côté d'Ar et touche à la frontière de Moab.

16 De là ils allèrent à Beer. C'est ce Beer, où l'Eternel dit à Moïse: Rassemble le peuple, et je leur donnerai de l'eau.