Numbers 21:20

_AND FROM BAMOTH IN THE VALLEY, THAT IS IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH, WHICH LOOKETH TOWARD JESHIMON._ Bamoth, х_ UWMI-BAAMOWT_ (H1120) _ HAGAYª'_ (H1516)] - heights or high places in the gorge or narrow glen (cf. Numbers 22:41; Joshua 13:17; Isaiah 15:2). THAT IS IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, х_ BISDEEH_ (H7704)] - in the field of Moab (cf. Genesis 36:35; Ruth 1:1;...

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 forward." It were well if we did thus; and the nearer we come to heaven, were so much the more active and abundant in the work of the Lord. The wonderful success God granted to his people, is here spoken of, and, among the rest, their actions on the river Arnon, at Vaheb in Suphah, and other places on that river. In every stage of our lives, nay, in every step, we should notice what God has wrought for us; what he did at such a time, and what in such a place, ought to be distinctly remembered. God blessed his people with a supply of water. When we come to heaven, we shall remove to the well of life, the fountain of living waters. They received it with joy and thankfulness, which made the mercy dou...

IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB - Rather, in the field of Moab: the upland pastures, or flat downs, intersected by the ravine of Wady Waleh. PISGAH, WHICH LOOKETH TOWARD JESHIMON - Or, “toward the waste.” See Numbers 33:47. Pisgah was a ridge of the Abarim mountains, westward from Heshbon. From the summit the Israelites gained their first view of the wastes of the Dead Sea and of the valley of the Jordan: and Moses again ascended it, to view, before his death, the land of promise. The interest attaching to the spot, and the need of a convenient name for it, has led Christians often to designate it as “Nebo,” rather than as “the mountain of, or near to, Nebo;” but the latter is the more correct: Nebo denoted the town Isaiah 15:2;...

EXPOSITION THE END OF JOURNEYS, THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES (Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1). NUMBERS 21:10 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SET FORWARD, and pitched in Oboth. In the list of Numbers 33:1, there occur two other stations, Zahnonah and Phunon, between Mount Hor and Oboth. Phunon may be the Pinou of Genesis 36:41, but it is a mere conjecture. All we

AND FROM BAMOTH, [IN] THE VALLEY,.... Or rather "to the valley", as the Targum of Onkelos, since Bamoth signifies high places; though, according to the Jerusalem Talmud o, Bamoth, Baal, which seems to be the same place, was in a plain: THAT IS IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB; the valley belonged to Moab, into which Israel came: TO THE TOP OF PISGAH; not that the valley reached to the top, nor did the children of Israel go to the top of it, only Moses, but rather to the bottom, which indeed is meant; for it intends the beginning of it, where Pisgah, which was an high mountain near the plains of Moab, began, and which was properly the foot of it: WHICH LOOKETH TOWARDS JESHIMON; that is, Pisgah, as Jarchi rightly interprets it, which looked over a place called Jeshimon; and which signifies a wilderness, and is no other indeed than the wilderness of Kedemoth,...

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 again (Numbers 21:10) 5. Sihon and Og (Numbers 21:21) The first victory is here recorded. The Lord delivered Canaanites into the hands of Israel, and according to their vow they utterly destroyed them and their cities. But in spite of this victory the people became again discouraged because of the w

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 Hor and Oboth. NUMBERS 21:10 F. OBOTH. IYE-ABARIM: both unknown. BEFORE MOAB: _i.e._ E. of Moab. Numbers 21:12. the valley of Zered: probably the Wâ dy el Ahsa at the SE. angle of the Dead Sea. Numbers 21:13. the other s

COUNTRY. field. JESHIMON. the wilderness....

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 which fall to the Dead Sea. Notice that the formula used in the itinerary has changed; in Numbers 21:10 it is -and they journeyed from and encamped in," as throughout ch. 33; but here it is -from thence they journeyed, and encamped in," or some shorter expression. On the whole of this section see G. A. Smith, _Hist. Geogr._557 66, and his article -Moab" in _Enc. Bibl.[Note: nc. Bibl. Encyclopaedia Biblica.]_ __...

TO THE TOP OF PISGAH— Houbigant renders this, _Ras-pisgah,_ supposing the whole a proper name; which, says he, in so uncertain a matter, seems the safest: for, from the context, it sufficiently appears, that this was not the mountain _Pisgah;_ nor can it be proper to render ראשׁ _rosh,_ a _mountain,_ or _top,_ when the Israelites are said to come _into a valley._ Le Clerc renders it, _under the top of Pisgah._ Which _looketh toward Jeshimon,_ is rendered more properly in the margin, _toward the wilderness;_ namely, the wilderness of _Kedemoth,_ a city on the borders of the country of the Amorites, from whence they sent messengers to Sihon. See Deuteronomy 32:10. Psalms 68:7 in the original. REFLECTIONS.—We have here the journies of the pe