Numbers 21:12
in Numbers 21From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
From thence they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
KJV
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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This verse in Numbers 21
Commentary
5 notes on this verseFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zered. Or the brook Zered, as in Deu 13:14 that is near it: this seems to be the same station with Dibongad, Num 33:45, and which, according to the above writer, was sixteen miles from Ijeabarim.
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 Nineteenth Century3 voices
They - pitched in the valley of Zared - נחל זרד nachal zared. This should be translated the brook Zared, as it is in Deu 2:13, Deu 2:14. This stream has its origin in the mountains eastward of Moab, and runs from east to west, and discharges itself into the Dead Sea.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
pitched in the valley--literally, the "woody brook-valley" of Zared (De 2:13; This torrent rises among the mountains to the east of Moab, and flowing west, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Ije-Abarim is supposed to have been its ford [CALMET].
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The valley of Zared - Rather, the brook or watercourse of Zared “the willow.” It is probably the present Wady Ain Franjy.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Arnon was a city which belonged to Moab, [located] near the end of the Amorite border and the beginning of the border of Moab, and it was situated on brooks that flowed through it. 258 Verse: and Arnon among the brooks.
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Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִשָּׁ֖ם | misham | from there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| נָסָ֑עוּ | nasau | they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּנַ֥חַל | benachal | in [the] wadi of | H5158 → | 141 times |
| זָֽרֶד׃ | zared | Zered | H2218 → |
מִשָּׁ֖םfrom there
mishamH8033 →834 times
נָסָ֑עוּthey set out
nasauH5265 →146 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּנַ֥חַלin [the] wadi of
benachalH5158 →141 times
זָֽרֶד׃Zered
zaredH2218 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.