Bilangan 21:20-22
Konteks21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness. 1
21:21 2 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 3
21:22 “Let us 4 pass through your land; 5 we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”
[21:20] 1 tn Or perhaps as a place name, “Jeshimon.”
[21:21] 2 sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.
[21:21] 3 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”
[21:22] 4 tn The Hebrew text uses the singular in these verses to match the reference to “Israel.”
[21:22] 5 tc Smr has “by the King’s way I will go. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.”