Numbers 21:11

11 And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.

Numbers 21:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:11

And they journeyed from Oboth
How long they stayed there is not certain:

and pitched at Ijeabarim;
which, according to Bunting ^F11, was sixteen miles from Oboth; Jarchi says it was the way that passengers pass by Mount Nebo to the land of Canaan, and which divides between the land of Moab and the land of the Amorites:

in the wilderness which is before Moab;
called the wilderness of Moab, ( Deuteronomy 2:8 )

towards the sunrising;
the east side of the land of Moab, ( Judges 11:18 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs 83.)

Numbers 21:11 In-Context

9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal- : and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.

10 And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.

11 And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.

12 And thence they departed, and encamped in the valley of Zared.

13 And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, which extends from the coasts of the Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.