And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its dependent villages, and he dispossessed the Amorites that were there.

And Moses sent to explore Jaazer, and they took its villages, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who is there,

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

And Moses sent some to explore Jazer. These captured its villages and possessed its inhabitants.

Misit deinde Moses ad explorandum Jaazer, et ceperunt oppida ejus, et expulit AEmorrhaeum qui erat ibi.

Jaazer - To he identified probably with the ruins Sir or es-Sir 10 miles north of Heshbon. The occupation of it by the Israelites virtually completed their conquest of the Amorite kingdom; and prepared the way for the pastoral settlements in it which they not long after established Numbers 32:35.

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer,.... Or Jazer, as it is called in Isaiah 16:9, 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 (s), 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.
(s) De locis Hebrews. fol. 92. G.

Jaazer - One of the cities of Moab formerly taken from them by Sihon, and now taken from him by the Israelites.