Numbers - 21:12



12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 21:12.

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From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
From thence they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:
From thence they removed, and encamped at the torrent Zered.
From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.
From thence they have journeyed, and encamp in the valley of Zared.
And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
From there they traveled, and camped in the valley of Zered.
And moving from there, they arrived at the Torrent of Zared.
Inde profecti castrametati sunt in valle Zered.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The valley of Zared - Rather, the brook or watercourse of Zared "the willow." It is probably the present Wady Ain Franjy.

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, Deuteronomy 2:14. This stream has its origin in the mountains eastward of Moab, and runs from east to west, and discharges itself into the Dead Sea.

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, according to the above writer, was sixteen miles from Ijeabarim.

pitched in the valley--literally, the "woody brook-valley" of Zared (Deuteronomy 2:13; Isaiah 15:7; Amos 6:14). This torrent rises among the mountains to the east of Moab, and flowing west, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Ije-Abarim is supposed to have been its ford [CALMET].

The valley of Zared - Or rather, by the brook of Zared, which ran into the dead sea.

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