Numbers 10:29 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 10:29

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

BSB

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ASV

And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.

KJV

And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Hobab, the son of Raguel - Or Reuel Exo 2:18. Reuel was probably not identical with Jethro: and Hobab was the brother-in-law, not the father-in-law, of Moses; the Hebrew word translated in the King James Version “father-in-law,” signifying simply any relation by marriage (Exo 3:1 note). Hobab Jdg 1:16; Jdg 4:11 eventually accompanied the Israelites and obtained a settlement with them in the land of Canaan. Hobab and Jethro may have been brethren and sons of Reuel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And therefore this Hobab is not Jethro, but his son, which may seem more probable, because Jethro was old and unfit to travel, and desirous, as may well be thought, to die in his own country, whither he returned, Exod. xviii, 27, but Hobab was young and fitter for these journeys, and therefore entreated by Moses to stay and bear them company.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite--called also Reuel (the same as Jethro [Ex 2:18, Margin]). Hobab, the son of this Midianite chief and brother-in-law to Moses, seems to have sojourned among the Israelites during the whole period of their encampment at Sinai and now on their removal proposed returning to his own abode.

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מֹשֶׁ֗ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
לְ֠חֹבָב	le.cho.o	to Hobab	H2246 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[the] son of	H1121 →
רְעוּאֵ֣ל	re.'u.'El	Reuel	H7467 →
הַמִּדְיָנִי֮	ha.mid.ya.Ni	the Midianite	H4084 →
חֹתֵ֣ן	cho.Ten	[the] father-in-law of	H2859 →
מֹשֶׁה֒	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
נֹסְעִ֣ים׀	no.se.'Im	[are] about to set out	H5265 →
אֲנַ֗חְנוּ	'a.Nach.nu	we	H587 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמָּקוֹם֙	ha.ma.kOm	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֹת֖וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
אֶתֵּ֣ן	'e.Ten	I will give	H5414 →
לָכֶ֑ם	la.Khem	to <the> you
לְכָ֤ה	le.Khah	come !	H1980 →
אִתָּ֙נוּ֙	'i.Ta.nu	with us	H854 →
וְהֵטַ֣בְנוּ	ve.he.Tav.nu	and we will do good	H3190 →
לָ֔ךְ	Lakh	to <the> you
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
דִּבֶּר־	di.ber-	he has spoken	H1696 →
ט֖וֹב	Tov	good	H2896 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
leads to
- Genesis 50:24
  Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
- Exodus 3:17
  And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Genesis 15:18–21
  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Exodus 13:5
  And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
- Deuteronomy 1:25
  They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Through
Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
leads to
- Genesis 17:8
  And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 13:15
  for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- Genesis 17:1
  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.