Numbers 21:11

11 from whence they went forth, and setted tents in Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that beholdeth Moab, against the east coast. (and they went forth from there, and pitched their tents in Iyeabarim, in the wilderness on Moab's eastern border.)

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 Therefore Moses made a serpent of brass, and setted (it) in a perch; and (those) men (who were) hurt, and beholding it, were healed. (And so Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it up on a pole; and those who were bitten, and looked at it, were healed.)

10 And the sons of Israel went forth, and setted tents in Oboth; (And the Israelites went forth, and pitched their tents at Oboth;)

11 from whence they went forth, and setted tents in Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that beholdeth Moab, against the east coast. (and they went forth from there, and pitched their tents in Iyeabarim, in the wilderness on Moab's eastern border.)

12 And they moved from thence, and came to the strand of Zared; (And they went from there, and came to the valley of the Zared River;)

13 which they left, and setted tents against (the) Arnon, which is in the desert, and it appeareth in the coasts of Amorites. Forsooth (the) Arnon is the term of Moab, and parteth Moabites and Amorites. (and they left there, and pitched their tents on the north side of the Arnon River, which is in the wilderness, that goeth into the land of the Amorites. The Arnon River is the border of Moab, and it separateth the Moabites and the Amorites.)