Numbers 21:19

and from Mattanah to Nahaliel If Budde's suggestion in the preceding note is correct, the original reading here was perhaps -and from thenceto N.", as in Numbers 21:16 after the insertion of the foregoing song, or, following the hint in the LXX., -and from Beer to N."

Nahalielis unknown. It means -the wady of God." G. A. Smith (H. G.[Note:. G. Historical Geography of the Holy Land.] 562) suggests the Wady Zerkâ Ma-în with its healing springs, which flows into the Dead Sea about midway between its northern end and the mouth of the Arnon.

Bamoth The name means -high places." These were numerous in the hilly country of Moab, so that the place cannot be safely identified. It is probably an abbreviation of a compound name, and may be the same as Bamoth-Baal (Numbers 22:41 marg., Joshua 13:17). -Beth-Bamoth" (perhaps the same place) occurs in Mesha's inscription, known as the Moabite stone. (See Hastings" DB.iii. 407.) Bamoth was probably a high place not far south of the -valley" of Numbers 21:20.