Numbers 33:43-53

43 They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
44 They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
45 They left Iye Abarim and camped at Dibon Gad.
46 They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
47 They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.
48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
50 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the LORD said to Moses,
51 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Numbers 33:43-53 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.

Cross References 14

  • 1. Numbers 21:10
  • 2. S Numbers 21:11
  • 3. Numbers 27:12
  • 4. Numbers 32:3
  • 5. Numbers 27:12
  • 6. S Numbers 26:3
  • 7. S Genesis 13:10
  • 8. Numbers 22:1; Joshua 12:9
  • 9. Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20; Ezekiel 25:9
  • 10. S Numbers 21:16; Numbers 25:1
  • 11. ver 48
  • 12. Numbers 34:2; Joshua 3:17
  • 13. Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13; S Leviticus 26:1; Deuteronomy 7:2,5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Joshua 11:12; Psalms 106:34-36
  • 14. Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 17:14; Joshua 1:11; Joshua 21:43
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