21:21 1 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 2
1 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.
2 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”