Numbers 21:19

19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel; from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

Numbers 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:19

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 33:1-56 ) and were not stations where they pitched, but places they passed through before they came to Abarim, and the wilderness of Kedemoth.

Numbers 21:19 In-Context

17 Then the Israelites sang this song: "Well, flow up! Sing about it!
18 The well that the officials dug, that the officials of the people hollowed out with the ruler's scepter and their staffs." They marched from the desert to Mattanah;
19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel; from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20 from Bamoth to the valley in the Moabite countryside, to the top of Pisgah overlooking Jeshimon.
21 Then the Israelites sent messengers to Sihon the Amorite king:
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