Numbers 33:47
in Numbers 33They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
KJV
And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThere follows next the stage at Abarim opposite Nabau [Nebo], which is "passage." But Nabau means "separation." For when the soul has made its journey through all these virtues and has climbed to the height of perfection, it then "passes" from the world and "separates" from it, as it is written of Enoch, "And he was not found, because God had taken him across."
This site's exposition
and pitched in Zalmonah
on Numbers 33:41-49
Zalmonah and Punon fall between mount Hor and Oboth, which is the stretch where Numbers 21:4-9 sets the fiery serpents and the serpent of brass that John 3:14-15 takes up by name. The mountains of Abarim before Nebo at verse 47 is the ground where Moses will be shown the land and die, in Deuteronomy 34:1-5, and the list names the place without saying so. Abel-shittim at verse 49 is the Shittim of Numbers 25:1, where Israel joined itself unto Baal-peor. The record of the stages stops at the camp where the plague of chapter 25 fell.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim,.... Sixteen miles from Almondiblathaim; these were so called from passages near them over the river Jordan: and this station was pitched before Nebo; one of those mountains, whither Moses went up and died.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Mountains of Abarim, before Nebo - The mountain on which Moses died. They came to this place after the overthrow of the Amorites. See Numbers 21. Stat. 41.
The words behind it
8 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 |
| מֵעַלְמֹ֣ן | mealmon | from Almon- | H5963 → | 4 times |
| דִּבְלָתָ֑יְמָה | divlatayemah | diblathaim | H5963 → | 4 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֛וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּהָרֵ֥י | beharei | in [the] mountains of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| הָעֲבָרִ֖ים | haavarim | the Abarim | H5682 → | 5 times |
| לִפְנֵ֥י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| נְבֽוֹ׃ | nevo | Nebo | H5015 → | 13 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵעַלְמֹ֣ןfrom Almon-
mealmonH5963 →4 times
דִּבְלָתָ֑יְמָהdiblathaim
divlatayemahH5963 →4 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֛וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּהָרֵ֥יin [the] mountains of
behareiH2022 →546 times
הָעֲבָרִ֖יםthe Abarim
haavarimH5682 →5 times
לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
נְבֽוֹ׃Nebo
nevoH5015 →13 times
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
Deuteronomy 34:1Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
it leads to
- Numbers 27:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
- Ezekiel 40:2
In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.
- Deuteronomy 32:49
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- Joshua 19:47
(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…
- Numbers 27:12
Through
Numbers 27:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
it leads to
- Numbers 33:47–48
They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 34:1–4
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
- Numbers 33:47–48
Through
Numbers 21:20and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
it leads to
- Numbers 23:28
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
- Numbers 23:28
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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.