Numbers 21:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Israel dwelt in all the cities - such as Beth-gamul, Bozrah, Kerioth, etc. (Jeremiah 48:21-24), after exterminating the inhabitants, who were previously doomed (Deuteronomy 2:34).

In Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof - literally, all the daughters thereof. The phrase, 'all the daughters' of a city, evidently means the excrement villas and towns belonging to the metropolitan or mother city.

Numbers 21:25

25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villagesf thereof.