But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel,.... So that as Sihon, his people, and his country, fell into the hands of Israel through the victory the Lord…
Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law Deu 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message with…
We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated…
Cambridge Bible
Jahaz Num 21:23; Deu 2:32; a strong place on the high table-land(mîshor) of Moab (Jer 48:21), in the country north of the Arnon given to Reuben (Jos 13:18 P), near Kedçmoth (Jos 21:36 f.), and thus in…
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