Numbers 32:37 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 32:37

The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

BSB

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ASV

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

KJV

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The Reubenites established themselves more compactly than the Gadites. Elcalch (el-’Al) a mile to the northeast; Nebo (Nebbeh) probably three miles to the southwest; Baal-meon (Main) nearly two miles to the south; Kirjathaim (Kureiyat?): and Shibmah, more properly Sibmah, famous at a later period for its vines (compare Isa 16:8), four miles east of Heshbon; all clustered round the old Amorite Capital. The Reubenites probably retained at the partition all these cities with the exception of Heshbon, which, passing to the Levites, were thenceforth reckoned as within the tribe of Gad.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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");

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֤י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] descendants of	H1121 →
רְאוּבֵן֙	re.'u.Ven	Reuben	H7205 →
בָּנ֔וּ	ba.Nu	they built	H1129 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן	chesh.Bon	Heshbon	H2809 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אֶלְעָלֵ֑א	'el.'a.Le'	Elealeh	H500 →
וְאֵ֖ת	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃	kir.ya.Ta.yim	Kiriathaim	H7156 →

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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
Isaiah 15:4
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 11:20
  But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
- 1 Kings 19:4
  while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
- Numbers 32:3–4
  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Joshua 13:18
  Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Through
Numbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
leads to
- Numbers 32:34–38
  And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
- 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,

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