Bible Strands
Numbers 21:32
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The anonymous narrator records Israel’s military advance in the Transjordan immediately after the defeat of Sihon and before the campaign against Og of Bashan.
The words — יַעְזֵר (ya'.Zer) names the fortified city of Jazer, while בְּנֹתֶ֑י/הָ (be.no.Tei./ha) literally means “daughters of it,” a Hebrew idiom for surrounding villages. The verb וַ/יּ֖וֹרֶשׁ (va/i.yi.resh) documents the systematic dispossessing of the resident Amorites.
The thread — Jazer reappears in Numbers 32:1 and Numbers 32:35 as territory surveyed and allocated to the Reubenites and Gadites, and functions as a symbol of impending judgment in Jeremiah 48:32.
Why it lands — The passage records a specific territorial conquest, requiring the reader to track the historical mechanism of Israel’s expansion and the displacement of prior inhabitants without adding moral commentary.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Cross-references
- Numbers 32:1 Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Jeremiah 48:32 I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
- Numbers 32:35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
- Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.