Numbers 21:10
in Numbers 21Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
KJV
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
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This verse in Numbers 21
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The earlier stations in this part of their journey were Zalmonah and Punon Num 33:41-42. Oboth was north of Punon, east of the northern part of Edom, and is pretty certainly the same as the present pilgrim halting-place el-Ahsa. Ije (“ruinous heaps”) of Abarim, or Iim of Abarim, was so called to distinguish it from another Iim in southwestern Canaan Jos 15:29. Abarim denotes generally the whole upland country on the east of the Jordan. The Greek equivalent of the name is Peraea.
This site's exposition
the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth
on Numbers 21:10-13
Four stages carry Israel from the desert to the border of Moab, and one of them carries the end of the sentence passed at Kadesh. Deuteronomy 2:14 says the space from Kadesh-barnea until they came over the brook Zered was thirty and eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host. Arnon is named as the border between Moab and the Amorites, and that line decides whom Israel may fight, since Deuteronomy 2:9 forbids any quarrel with Moab.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
) they pitched in Oboth, which signifies bottles, so called perhaps because there they filled their bottles with water, which should last them for some time; but by this time, we may suppose, it was with them as it was with Hagar ( Gen. xxi.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation
And the children of Israel set forward,....
It were well if we would do thus in our way to heaven, rid ground in the latter end of our journey, and the nearer we come to heaven be so much the more active and abundant in the work of the Lord. Two things especially are observable in the brief account here given of these removals:-- 1.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֖וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּאֹבֹֽת׃ | beovot | in Oboth | H88 → | 4 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּאֹבֹֽת׃in Oboth
beovotH88 →4 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.