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Numbers 32:36

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Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

KJV

And Beth–nimrah, and Beth–haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities,.... The first of these is the same with Nimrah, Num 32:3, and the other is the same with Betharam, Jos 13:27, it is called in the Jerusalem Talmud (r), Bethramtha, and so by the Syrians, Bethramphta; and to the same place Herod gave the name of Livias or Julias (s): these cities the children of Gad built or repaired for their families: and folds for sheep; they also built for their cattle, as they promised to do, and Moses enjoined them, Num 32:16. (r) Sheviith, fol. 38. 4. (s) Vid. Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. par.

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 Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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

10 Hebrew words

Every 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.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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 32:3

    “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,

    • Numbers 21:28

      For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

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The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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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.

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