John Gill Commentary Numbers 21:32

"And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there." — Numbers 21:32 (ASV)

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer
Or Jazer, as it is called in (Isaiah 16:9) (Jeremiah 48:32) , another city that belonged to the Amorites, and which they had taken from the Moabites; and which came into the hands of the latter again, after the captivity of the ten tribes, as appears from the above places; according to Jerom ^F19 , it was fifteen miles distant from Heshbon:

and they took the villages thereof ;
not the spies, as Jarchi, but the Israelites under Moses; who upon the return of the spies, and the report they made, marched towards it, and took it, and all the towns and villages round about it; for it seems to have been a principal city:

and drove out the Amorites that were there ;
that dwelt there, and were in possession of it; otherwise they would not have attacked it, had it, and its villages, been in the hands of the Moabites.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: De locis Heb. fol. 92. G.