Numbers 33:43-53

43 left Punon and camped at Oboth;

44 left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim on the border of Moab;

45 left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad;

46 left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim;

47 left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim (Across-the-River), within sight of Nebo.

48 After they left the mountains of Abarim they camped on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho.

49 On the Plains of Moab their camp stretched along the banks of the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim (Acacia Meadow).

50 God spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho:

51 "Tell the People of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the country of Canaan,

52 drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds

53 so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.

Numbers 33:43-53 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.