Numbers 21:11

11 Then they started out from Oboth. They camped in Iye Abarim. It's in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.

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 So Moses made a bronze snake. He put it up on a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake remained alive.

10 The people of Israel moved on. They camped at Oboth.

11 Then they started out from Oboth. They camped in Iye Abarim. It's in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.

12 From there they moved on. They camped in the Zered Valley.

13 They started out from there and camped by the Arnon River. It's in the desert that spreads out into the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the border of Moab. It's between Moab and the Amorites.