Numbers 21:19

19 From Mattanah they went to Nahaliel and on 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: "Pour out water, well! Sing about it.
18 Princes dug this well. Important men made it. With their scepters and poles, they dug it." The people went from the desert to Mattanah.
19 From Mattanah they went to Nahaliel and on to Bamoth.
20 From Bamoth they went to the valley of Moab where the top of Mount Pisgah looks over the desert.
21 The Israelites sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
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