Numbers 21:19

19 from Mattanah to Nachali'el, from Nachali'el to Bamot,

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 Isra'el sang this song: "Spring up, oh well! Sing to the well
18 sunk by the princes, dug by the people's leaders with the scepter, with their staffs!" From the desert they went to Mattanah,
19 from Mattanah to Nachali'el, from Nachali'el to Bamot,
20 and from Bamot to the valley by the plain of Mo'av at the start of the Pisgah range, where it overlooks the desert.
21 Isra'el sent messengers to Sichon, king of the Emori, with this message:
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