Numbers 32:37
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What does Numbers 32:37 mean?
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh,
and
Kirjathaim.
] Heshbon was the royal city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and
Elealeh was within a mile of it, see ( Numbers 32:3
) , this shows that those cities were not built anew properly,
only repaired, for they were cities in being long before;
besides, they had not time to build new cities, for in a few
months after this they passed over Jordan; though indeed they
left men enough behind to rebuild cities, whom they might set to
work about them when they departed: Kirjathaim is, by the Targum
of Jonathan, called the city of two streets paved with marble,
and it adds, this is Beresha: Jerom F20 says, it is now called
Coraiatha, which is pretty near its ancient name, and that it is
ten miles from Medeba, a city of Arabia, mentioned as one of the
cities in the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, ( Numbers
21:30 ) ( Isaiah 15:2 ) .
F20 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. M.
