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Numbers 21:24 Explained in Context
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Verse 24. 24And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 21:24 within “Sihon Refuses Passage and His Kingdom Falls,” locates this severe clause inside the complete conflict rather than making it transferable policy; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
Read It With
- Numbers 21:21–30
Read Numbers 21:24 with 21:21–30. It within “Sihon Refuses Passage and His Kingdom Falls,” locates this severe clause inside the complete conflict rather than making it transferable policy; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Israel requests peaceful king's-highway passage from Sihon, who gathers for battle; Israel kills him, takes cities from the Arnon to Jabbok, occupies Amorite towns, and preserves a taunt song about Heshbon and Moab.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 21:24 within “Sihon Refuses Passage and His Kingdom Falls,” locates this severe clause inside the complete conflict rather than making it transferable policy; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. Its responsible force depends on 21:21–30; isolated from “Sihon Refuses Passage and His Kingdom Falls,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 21:21–30 — Sihon Refuses Passage and His Kingdom FallsSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 21:21–30, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:21–30
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