Numbers 21:10-20

The Song of the Well

10 And the people of Israel set out and 1camped in Oboth.
11 2And they set out from Oboth and 3camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
12 From there they set out and camped in 4the Valley of Zered.
13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the 5Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,
15 and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of 6Ar, and leans to the border of Moab."
16 And from there they continued 7to Beer;[a] that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that 8I may give them water."
17 Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--Sing to it!--
18 the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with 9the scepter and with their staffs."And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah 10that looks down on the desert.[b]

Cross References 10

  • 1. Numbers 33:43, 44
  • 2. [See ver. 10 above]
  • 3. [See ver. 10 above]
  • 4. Deuteronomy 2:13
  • 5. Numbers 22:36; Judges 11:18
  • 6. ver. 28; Deut. 2:9, 18, 29; Isaiah 15:1
  • 7. [2 Samuel 20:14]
  • 8. [Numbers 20:8; Exodus 17:6]
  • 9. See Genesis 49:10
  • 10. [Numbers 23:28]

Footnotes 2

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