Numbers 21:11

11 Next they moved from Oboth and set up camp at Iye Abarim in the desert west 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 and put it on a pole. People looked at the bronze snake after they were bitten, and they lived.

10 The Israelites moved and set up camp at Oboth.

11 Next they moved from Oboth and set up camp at Iye Abarim in the desert west of Moab.

12 From there they moved and set up camp at the Zered River.

13 They moved from there and set up camp on the other side of the Arnon Valley in the desert that extends into Amorite territory. (The Arnon Valley is the border between Moab and the Amorites.)