Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Numbers 21:12
From thence they removed and pitched in the Valley of Zared, a small river which flows into the southeastern corner of the Dead Sea.
From thence they removed and pitched in the Valley of Zared, a small river which flows into the southeastern corner of the Dead Sea.
Verse Numbers 21:12. _THEY - PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF ZARED._] נחל זרד _nachal_ _zared_. This should be translated _the brook Zared_, as it is in Deuteronomy 2:13-5. This _stream_ has its origin in t...
THE VALLEY OF ZARED - Rather, the brook or watercourse of Zared “the willow.” It is probably the present Wady Ain Franjy....
CHAPTER 21 Murmuring and Conquest _ 1. Opposition of King Arad (Numbers 21:1)_ 2. Murmuring and the fiery serpents (Numbers 21:4) 3. The serpent of brass (Numbers 21:8) 4. Journeying and singing
AN ITINERARY. This continues Numbers 21:4 (and they journeyed from Mount Hor), but the immediate place of departure in Numbers 21:10 is omitted. In Numbers 33:42 f. two stations are inserted between H...
Numbers 21:12. J E The Israelites arrived at a spot on the S.E. border of Moab, and then, having travelled northwards along its eastern boundary, penetrated westward till they reached the cliffs whic...
_From thence they journeyed_ The last place mentioned in J E was -the way to the Red Sea" (Numbers 21:4); but it is probable that some stages in the journey have been lost, and that -thence" originall...
G. BYPASSING MOAB vv. 10-20 TEXT Numbers 21:10. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11. And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is b...
_FROM THENCE THEY REMOVED, AND PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF ZARED._ Pitched in the valley of Zared, х_ ZAARED_ (H2218)] - torrent bed or Wady of Zared (woody), now Wady el-Ahsy [Septuagint, eis pharanga...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
ZARED] The Zered flowed into the Dead Sea at its southern extremity....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 21 THE *ISRAELITES DEFEAT THE *CANAANITES – NUMBERS 21:1-3 V1 The king of Arad lived in the southern part of t
מִ שָּׁ֖ם נָסָ֑עוּ וַֽ יַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּ נַ֥חַל
THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Numbers 21:1 IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the Israelites by the King of Arad took place on the occasion when, after the return...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT; JOURNEYING TO PISGAH Numbers 21:1 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fight the desert tribes, but it is harder to traverse the lon...
The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were discouraged. Again they felt a lusting after Egypt and spoke against...
_Zared. The Israelites passed over this torrent, 38 years after the murmur at Cades-barne, (Deuteronomy ii. 14,) when God ordered Moses not to attack the Moabites._...
These were several marches, and it should seem quickly made. Canaan was almost now in their view, and the people longed to be there. Even waters in their progress when they approach the mouth of the s...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
The question is not here to conduct the people with patience through the wilderness, where the flesh manifested itself; but there are enemies and difficulties to be met; for there are difficulties dis...
FROM THENCE THEY REMOVED, AND PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF ZERED. Or the brook Zered, as in Deuteronomy 13:14 that is near it: this seems to be the same station with Dibongad, Numbers 33:45, and which, ac...
_In Oboth_ Not immediately, but after two other stations, mentioned chap. 33. _The valley of Zared_ Or rather, _by the brook of Zared_, which ran into the Dead sea. _On the other side_ Or rather, _on...
1 Israel with some losse destroy the Canaanites at Hormah. 4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents. 7 They repenting are healed by a brasen serpent. 10 Sundry iourneyes of the Israel...
ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES (vs.1-3) The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same vicinity from which they had sent the spies into the south of Canaan. He therefore took the i...
10-20 We have here the removes of the children of Israel, till they came to the plains of Moab, from whence they passed over Jordan into Canaan. The end of their pilgrimage was near. "They set forwar...
Or rather, _by the torrent or brook of Zared_, as we render it, DEUTERONOMY 2:13; which ran into the Dead Sea, and from which the valley also might be so called....
This chapter brings prominently before us the familiar and beautiful ordinance of the brazen Serpent that great evangelical type. "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compa...
Numbers 21:12 moved H5265 (H8804) camped H2583 (H8799) Valley H5158 Zered H2218 the valley of Zared -...
6). JOURNEY FROM OBOTH TO THE PISGAH LOOKING TOWARDS JESHIMON (NUMBERS 21:11). From this point on there is no shortage of water, as they move via the Wadi Zered to the River Arnon. And the abundance o...
CONTENTS: Victories of Israel; the serpent of brass. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Arad, Sihon, Og. CONCLUSION: Those who cry without cause will be given just cause to cry and they will be compelle...
Numbers 21:1. _King Arad;_ that is, Arad king of Arad. _The way of the spies,_ is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from Kadesh-Barnea. But the LXX not understanding it so, render it...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:10 These verses summarize Israel’s passage through the Transjordan, east of the Dead Sea, around the territory of Moab and through the land of the Amorites. Many of the plac...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 21:1. _King Arad the Canaanite_. Rather, “the Canaanite King of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaanites (Joshua 12:14), and was situated on a hill called...
EXPOSITION THE END OF JOURNEYS, THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES (Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1)....
Let's turn in our Bibles to Numbers chapter twenty-one. Now the children of Israel have been in the wilderness for about thirty-nine years and they are now beginning to make their move towards the Pro...
Deuteronomy 2:13; Deuteronomy 2:14...
The valley of Zared — Or rather, by the brook of Zared, which ran into the dead sea....