Numbers 21:19

19 From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto 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 Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:
18 The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.
19 From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
20 From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
21 And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
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