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Numbers 33:48

in Numbers 33

They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

KJV

And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

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This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab,.... Sixteen miles from Abarim, where all those things were transacted, which make the history of Balak and Balaam, Num 22:1 and where the Israelites now were by Jordan near Jericho; not on that side Jordan where Jericho stood, but on the other; Jericho, according to Eusebius, was ten miles from Bethjesimoth, where Israel now were, as follows.

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 Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12 · Written before 253.

proposed

The last stage is east of Moab by the Jordan. For the whole journey takes place, the whole course is run for the purpose of arriving at the river of God, so that we may make neighbors of the flowing Wisdom and may be watered by the waves of divine knowledge, and so that purified by them all we may be made worthy to enter the promised land.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The Plains of Moab - This was the scene of the transactions between Balaam and Balak; see Numbers 23, 24, 25. Stat. 42.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out

    vaiyisuH5265 →146 times

  • מֵהָרֵ֣יfrom [the] mountains of

    mehareiH2022 →546 times

  • הָעֲבָרִ֑יםthe Abarim

    haavarimH5682 →5 times

  • וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙and they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בְּעַֽרְבֹ֣תin [the] plains of

    bearvotH6160 →61 times

  • מוֹאָ֔בMoab

    moavH4124 →181 times

  • עַ֖לat

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • יַרְדֵּ֥ן[the] Jordan

    yardenH3383 →182 times

  • יְרֵחֽוֹ׃of Jericho

    yerechoH3405 →57 times

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 22:1

    Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 3:8

      At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—

    • Deuteronomy 34:1

      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 36:13

      These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    • Numbers 33:48–50

      They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    • Joshua 3:16

      the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 33 →

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.

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