Numbers 21:25
25
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.
Read Numbers 21:25 Using Other Translations
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.
What does Numbers 21:25 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Numbers 21:25
FOOTNOTES:
F17 (hytnb) "filiabus ejus", Montanus, Munster, Fagius, Grotius.
And Israel took all these cities
Which lay between the rivers Arnon and Jabbok; their particular
names may be seen in ( Numbers 32:3
Numbers
32:34-38 ) ,
and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the
Amorites;
being given to the Reubenites and Gadites, who inhabited them, as
their possession and inheritance, ( Numbers 32:2
Numbers
32:33 ) ( Deuteronomy
3:12 Deuteronomy
3:16 ) :
in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof;
or "daughters thereof" {q}. Heshbon was the metropolis or mother
city, and all the towns and villages adjacent were as daughters
to it; of which city more is said in the following verses,
(See Gill on Isaiah
15:4).
F17 (hytnb) "filiabus ejus", Montanus, Munster, Fagius, Grotius.
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