And he brought him into the field of Zophim
Or Sede Tzophim, as Hillerus F9 reads it, so called from the
watch tower, and watchmen in it: Jarchi says, it was a high
place, where a watchman stood to observe if an army came against
a city, and so a very proper place to take a view of the armies
of Israel from:
to the top of Pisgah;
a high hill in this place, where perhaps the watch tower was, or,
however, the watchman stood: this looked towards Jeshimon or
Bethjesimoth, in the plain of Moab, where Israel lay encamped,
see ( Numbers
21:20 ) ( 33:49 ) :
and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every
altar: as he had done before, ( Numbers 23:2
) .