Numbers 21

Numbers 21:6

Fiery Serpents onely in the later part of the fourtieth year, after Aarons death.

Numbers 21:26

Heshbon] Heshbon a chief City in Moab; afterwards of Sihon King of the Amorites, Deut. I. 4. afterwards of Gad; and out of that Tribe, given to the Merarites, Josh. XIII. 26. and XXI. 38, 39, 40. 1 Chron. VI. 80, 81. Afterwards recovered by the Moabites; and wasted by Shalmanesar, Esay XV. 4. and XVI. 8, 9. and after by the Babylonians, Jer. XLVIII. 45. There may seeme to be another Heshbon of the Ammonites, Jer. XLIX. 2, 3. And one in the Tribe of Reuben, Num. XXXII. 37. Josh. XIII. 15, 17. Heshbon signifies Devises; And an allusion is made to the name, Jer. XLVIII. 2. in the judgement there denounced against it; like to this is English, There is mischief devised against the Devises, the name of a town with us.