Numbers - 21:19



19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 21:19.

Differing Translations

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From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
They went from the wilderness to Mattanah, from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
Et e Mathanah in Nahaliel: et de Nahaliel in Bamoth.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Nahaliel - i. e. "brook of God;" the modern Wady Enkheileh. The Israelites must have crossed the stream not much above Ar.
Bamoth - Otherwise Bamoth-baal, "the high places of Baal" Numbers 22:41 : mentioned as near Dibon (Dhiban) in Joshua 13:17, and Isaiah 15:2. See Numbers 32:34.

And from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth. All the Targums interpret this, and the following verse, not of the journeying of the children of Israel, but of the motion of the well, that that, from the place from whence it was given them, descended with them into the valleys, and from thence to the high places, as these words signify: and indeed those places are not mentioned in the journeys of the children of Israel, Numbers 33:1 and were not stations where they pitched, but places they passed through before they came to Abarim, and the wilderness of Kedemoth.

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