Numbers 22:3 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 22:3

And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

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ASV

And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

WEB

and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.

YLT

and Moab is exceedingly afraid of the presence of the people, for it is numerous; and Moab is vexed by the presence of the sons of Israel,

DBT

And Moab was much afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

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Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Exodus 15:15
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
Nehemiah 13:2
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Isaiah 23:5
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
Nehemiah 2:10
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Joshua 2:10–11
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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They needed not to fear any harm from them if they knew (and it is probable that Moses let them know) the orders God had given to Israel not to contend with the Moabites, nor to use any hostility against them, Deut. ii. But, if they had any notice of this, they were jealous that it was but a sham, to make them secure, that they might be the more easily conquered.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): They were many; and hence infer how easily they would conquer their country, and all about them if some speedy and effectual course were not taken to stop the progress of their victorious arms: "They shall lick up or devour us, and all that are round about us, as speedily and irresistibly as the ox eats up the grass " (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

NUM 22:3DEU 2:25 EXO 15:14-16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NUM 22:3DEU 2:25 DEU 11:25
NUM 22:3DEU 2:25 DEU 28:10
NUM 22:3DEU 2:25 EXO 23:27
NUM 22:3DEU 2:25 JOS 9:24
NUM 22:3EXO 15:15 JOS 5:1
NUM 22:3JOS 9:24 DEU 20:15-17
NUM 22:3EXO 15:15 JOS 2:9

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