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Numbers 33:51

in Numbers 33

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... What was to be said, being what concerned the whole body of the people: when ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; near to which they now were, and Moses was about to leave them; and therefore it was the more necessary to give them some instructions and directions what they should do, when they were come into it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you--not, however, by expulsion, but extermination (De 7:1). and destroy all their pictures--obelisks for idolatrous worship (see on Le 26:1). and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places--by metonymy for all their groves and altars, and materials of worship on the tops of hills.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

The words behind it

14 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.

  • דַּבֵּר֙speak

    daberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְאָמַרְתָּ֖and you will say

    veamartaH559 →5305 times

  • אֲלֵהֶ֑םto them

    ʾalehemH413 →5510 times

  • כִּ֥יif

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אַתֶּ֛םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • עֹבְרִ֥ים[are] about to pass over

    ʾoerimH5674 →556 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֶ֥רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • כְּנָֽעַן׃Canaan

    kenaanH3667 →94 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 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

    Deuteronomy 7:1

    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:38

      to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 31:3

      The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

    • Acts 13:19

      And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

  • Through

    Joshua 3:17

    The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 14:22

      and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

    • Exodus 14:29

      But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

    • Psalms 66:6

      He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

    • Isaiah 25:8

      He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 9:1

    Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 11:31

      For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.