Numbers 21:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. ”

• Numbers 21:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Beer is probably the “Well,” afterward known as Beer-elim, the “well of heroes” Isaiah 15:8 .

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• Numbers 21:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  An Itinerary. This continues Numbers 21:4 (and they journeyed from Mount Hor), but the immediate place of departure in Numbers 21:10 is omitted. In Numbers 33:42 f. two stations are inserted...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  they went. This Ellipsis is wrongly supplied. It should be "from thence toward Beer". No mention is made of Beer in the list of journeys in Numbers 33 . spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .

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• Numbers 21:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. And from thence they went to Beer. Some think that a circumstance is here narrated, which had never been mentioned before, since a song is recorded, which we do not find elsewhere. But s...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

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• Numbers 21:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And from thence they went to Beer— Or, as the context explains it, to the well which, by God's direction, they dug, and from whence they were supplied with water in their necessity. Grateful for wh...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. From thence they went to Beer - i:e., a well. Th...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Brazen Serpent. Conquest of Bashan 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed.

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• Numbers 21:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Numbers 21:1-35 IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the Israelites by the King of Arad took place on the occasion when, after t...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Brazen Serpent; Journeying to Pisgah Numbers 21:1-20 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fight the desert tribes, but it is harder to traverse...

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• Numbers 21:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were discouraged. Again they felt a lusting after Egypt and spoke against...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If, as some suppose, the name of Beer, which means the ^four t-e! or well of life, was given in this place to intimate the well of life; we may learn a sweet lesson from this journey. All our pilgrim...

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• Numbers 21:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And from thence they went to Beer ,.... A place so called from a well which sprung up here, of which the following account is given: that is, the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses ; promising...

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• Numbers 21:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And from thence [they went] to Beer: that [is] the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Ver. 16. And I will give them water. ] Now that t...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ar A chief city in Moab. Beer This place, and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth, named here, ( Numbers 21:19 ,) are not mentioned among those places where they pitched or encamped, chap. 33. Probabl...

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• Numbers 21:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES (vs.1-3) The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same vicinity from which they had sent the spies into the south of Canaan. He therefore took t...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Removal of the Camp. B. C. 1452.       10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pi...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Beer, and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth named here, Numbers 21:19 , are not mentioned among those places where they pitched or encamped, Num 33 . Either therefore they did not pitch or encam...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  6). Journey from Oboth to the Pisgah Looking Towards Jeshimon ( Numbers 21:11-20 ). From this point on there is no shortage of water, as they move via the Wadi Zered to the River Arnon. And the a...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 21:1 . King Arad the Canaanite . Rather, “the Canaanite King of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaanites ( Joshua 12:14 ), and was situated on a hill c...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 21:1 . King Arad; that is, Arad king of Arad. The way of the spies, is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from Kadesh-Barnea. But the LXX not understanding it so, render...

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• Numbers 21:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Spring up, O well. A song of the pilgrimage I. The needs of human pilgrimage. 1. How indispensable are the things which we need. 2. How many are the things which we need. 3. How consta...

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• Numbers 21:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE END OF JOURNEYS , THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES ( Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1 ). Numbers 21:10 The children of Israel set forward , and pitched in Oboth. In t...

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• Numbers 21:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  From Oboth to Jeshimon

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• Numbers 21:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 17:6 ; Isaiah 12:3 ; Isaiah 41:17 ; Isaiah 41:18 ; Isaiah 43:20 ; Isaiah 49:10 ; John 4:10 ; John 4:14 ; John 7:37-39 ; Judges 9:21 ; Numbers 20:8 ; Revelation 21:6 ; Revelation 2...

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• Numbers 21:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Beer — This place and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth named here, Numbers 21:19 , are not mentioned among those places where they pitched or encamped, Numbers 33:1-49 . Probably they did not pitch...

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