Numbers 21:10

10 And the childern of Israel remoued and pitched 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Numbers 21:10 In-Context

8 And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: make the a serpent ad hage it vpp for a sygne and lett as many as are bytten loke apon it and they shall lyue.

9 And Moses made a serpent of brasse ad sett it vp for a sygne And when the serpentes had bytten any man he went and behelde the serpent of brasse and recouered.

10 And the childern of Israel remoued and pitched in Oboth.

11 And they departed from Oboth and laye at Egebarim in the wildernesse which is before Moab on the east syde.

12 And they remoued thence and pitched apon the ryuer of zarad.