a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'El
H3478
Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
forward
וַיִּסְע֖וּvai.yis.'U
H5265
properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
pitched
וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙vai.ya.cha.Nu
H2583
properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
plains
בְּעַֽרְב֣וֹתbe.'ar.Vot
H6160
a desert · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Moab
מוֹאָ֔בmo.'Av
H4124
Moab · proper noun, a place name
side
מֵעֵ֖בֶרme.'E.ver
H5676
properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Jordan
לְיַרְדֵּ֥ןle.yar.Den
H3383
Jarden · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Jericho
יְרֵחֽוֹye.re.Cho
H3405
Jericho or Jerecho · proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Numbers 21:20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Numbers 33:48-50 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 34:15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moa…
Deuteronomy 1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unt…
Deuteronomy 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:1-14
The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till they passed through Jordan under Joshua, after the death of Moses. Now we have here,
I. The fright which the Moabites were in upon the approach of Israel, Num 22:2-4. They needed not to fear any harm from them if they knew (and it is probable that Moses let them know) the orders God had given to Israel not to contend with the Moabites, nor to use any hostility against them, Deu 2:9. But, if they had any notice of this, they were jealous that it was but a sham, to make them secure, that they…
And the children of Israel set forward,.... From the country of Bashan, where we read of them last, after they had conquered Og the king of it, and also Sihon king of the Amorites, and settled some of their tribes in both kingdoms; the particular place from whence they came hither, according to the account of their journeys, were the mountains of Abarim, Numbers 33:48,
and pitched in the plains of Moab the part of them they encamped in reached from Bethjesimoth to Abelshittim, Numbers 33:49,
on this side Jordan by Jericho; or Jordan of Jericho, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; a river that flowed near to Jericho, running between the plains of Moab and the plains of Jericho; accordin…
And the children, of Israel set forward. This narrative contains many circumstances worthy of record: First, it shews that there is no stone which Satan does not turn for the destruction of the Church, and that, after he has assailed her in vain by force of arms, he attacks her by snares and secret artifices, whilst the ungodly also work under his impulse, as far as they are able, to overthrow her by deceit, and to make the promises of God, and His unchangeable decree for the preservation of the Church which He has chosen, of none effect. But God shews, on the other hand, that He so watches over His own, as to turn to their salvation whatever plots their enemies may devise for their destruct…
The Church Fathers
"And the sons of Israel, having set out from there, pitched their camp to the west of Moab beside the Jordan opposite Jericho. And when Balak, son of Zippor, saw," and the rest. Now all the things which are written concerning Balaam and his donkey are a history full of business; but the inner meaning is much more laborious, and I do not know whether it is even easy to explain merely the historical statements themselves. Yet, with God granting, we shall touch briefly on what we can. War is threatening you, O king Balak, son of Zippor; six hundred thousand armed men are rushing upon your borders. It behooved you also to prepare arms, to muster an army, to think about the drawing up of battle, so that you might meet the enemy, while still placed at a distance, equipped with arms. But you send to Balaam the diviner and send many gifts and promise greater ones and say: "come, curse for me the people that has gone out from Egypt." But Balaam, as Scripture teaches, referred these things to God, by whom also he is forbidden to come. But again the king sends envoys and, arms neglected, places all his hope in Balaam, that he may come and deliver words and hurl curses against the people in place of weapons, if perhaps the people, whom the king's army could not overcome, might be conquered by the words of Balaam. What consistency does this history have, what counsel does it show? Where or when was it heard that any of kings, with battle threatening him, having set aside his arms and neglected his army, took refuge in the words of some diviner or soothsayer? Whence again and again the grace of God must be implored by us, that we may be able to explain these things not by fabulous and Jewish narrations, but by rational senses worthy of the divine law. First of all, then, it must be confessed that in certain matters words can do more and avail more than bodies, since what the army of many nations could not accomplish, what could not be obtained by iron and arms, this is accomplished by words; and I do not say by holy words or words of God, but by certain words which are held among men, which how I should name I do not know; yet they are composed by a useless art, of which art let that be the name which each pleases to call it. There is, then, as I said, among men some work that is accomplished by words; which work, however, is such that it cannot be fulfilled by however…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Abel-shittim — Meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply “Shittim” (Num. 25:1; Josh. 2:1; Micah 6:5), a place on the east of Jordan, in the plain of Moab, nearly opposite Jericho. It was the forty-second…
Desert — (1.) Heb. midbar, “pasture-ground;” an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The “backside of the desert” (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the…
Jericho — Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was…
Moab — The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam.…
Shittim — Acacias, also called “Abel-shittim” (Num. 33:49), a plain or valley in the land of Moab where the Israelites were encamped after their two victories over Sihon and Og, at the close of their desert…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Return to the plains of Moab — Return to the plains of Moab
Jericho · 1. A city east of — 1. A city east of
Jordan · .Israelites — .Israelites
Midianites · Dwelt east of Jordan, beside Moab — Dwelt east of Jordan, beside Moab
Moabites · With Midian send for Balaam to curse Israel — With Midian send for Balaam to curse Israel
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
After the defeat of the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, and the conquest of their kingdoms in Gilead and Bashan, the Israelites removed from the height of Pisgah, on the mountains of Abarim before Nebo (see at Num 21:20), and encamped in the "Arboth Moab (the steppes of Moab), on the other side of the Jordan of Jericho," i.e., that part of the Jordan which skirted the province of Jericho. Arboth Moab was the name given to that portion of the Arabah, or large plain of the Jordan, the present Ghor (see at Deu 1:1), which belonged to the territory of the Moabites previous to the spread of the Amorites under Sihon in the land to the east of the Jordan, and which probably reached from the Dead S…
Following their victories over the Amorite kingdoms (21:21-35 and study note), Israel took up residence in the plains of Moab on the eastern side of the Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea and across the river from the oasis of Jericho. The Hebrews camped there until they crossed the Jordan to enter Canaan (Josh 3:1).
