Numbers 32:35
in Numbers 32Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
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and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
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And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
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This verse in Numbers 32
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
And the children of Gad built--(See on Nu 32:16). Dibon--identified with Dheban, now in ruins, an hour's distance from the Arnon (Mojeb). Ataroth (Hebrew, "crowns")--There are several towns so called in Scripture, but this one in the tribe of Gad has not been identified.
This site's exposition
the children of Gad built Dibon
on Numbers 32:34-36
Built here carries the sense of rebuilt, since these were standing Amorite towns taken in Numbers 21 and damaged in the taking, and Clarke, Gill and Jamieson all read the verb that way. Dibon turns up again on the Moabite Stone, the inscription of king Mesha found at Dhiban in 1868, whose tenth line says the men of Gad had dwelt in the land of Ataroth from of old. An outside record left by a hostile king names Gad in the towns this passage assigns to Gad.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A mountainous country, famous for pasturage 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.
And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah. Of these no mention is made elsewhere, except Jaazer, which is the same with Jazer, Num 32:3.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, &c.--Jaazer, near a famed fountain, Ain Hazier, the waters of which flow into Wady Schaib, about fifteen miles from Hesbon. Elealeh (Hebrew, "the high"), now Elaal; Kirjathaim (Hebrew, "the double city");
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַטְרֹ֥ת | ʾatrot | Atroth | H5855 → | |
| שׁוֹפָ֛ן | shofan | Shophan | H5855 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יַעְזֵ֖ר | ya'zer | Jazer | H3270 → | 13 times |
| וְיָגְבֳּהָֽה׃ | veyagebohah | and Jogbehah | H3011 → |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
עַטְרֹ֥תAtroth
ʾatrotH5855 →
שׁוֹפָ֛ןShophan
shofanH5855 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
יַעְזֵ֖רJazer
ya'zerH3270 →13 times
וְיָגְבֳּהָֽה׃and Jogbehah
veyagebohahH3011 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
it leads to
- Numbers 21:32
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Genesis 13:2
And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
- Genesis 13:10–11
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
- Numbers 21:32
Through
Numbers 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
it leads to
- Jeremiah 48:34
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- Isaiah 16:8–9
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the…
- Joshua 13:17
to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- Numbers 32:34–38
And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
- Jeremiah 48:34
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.