Numbers 21:10

10 The Israelites set out, and camped in Oboth.

Numbers 21:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:10

And the children of Israel set forward
From Zalmonah, and came to Punon, which, according to the above writer, was twenty miles from it; though here indeed, some think, the brazen serpent was set up, here being, as before observed, brass mines to furnish with that metal:

and pitched in Oboth;
which was twenty four miles from Punon, as says the same writer: the word signifies bottles; perhaps here the Israelites got water and filled their bottles, or, as others think, they filled them with the wine of Moab, and called the name of the place from thence; it is perhaps the same with the Eboda of Ptolemy {h}, which he places in Arabia Petraea; and of which Pliny F9 also makes mention.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Geograph. l. 5. c. 17.
F9 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.

Numbers 21:10 In-Context

8 And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live."
9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
10 The Israelites set out, and camped in Oboth.
11 They set out from Oboth, and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness bordering Moab toward the sunrise.
12 From there they set out, and camped in the Wadi Zered.
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