Numbers 22:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. ”

• Numbers 22:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The plains - Hebrew ערבה ‛ ărābâh ; the word is the plural of that which is used to denote the whole depressed tract along the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and onward, where it is still called...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on (a) this side Jordan [by] Jericho. (a) Being at Jericho, it was beyond the Jordan, but where the Israelites were, it was...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Moab's Fear of Israel. Of these verses I comes from P, the rest from JE (the presence of both constituents being shown by the repetitions in Numbers 22:3 ). As the Moabites were great breeders of...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . sons. plains of Moab: i.e. which had belonged to Moab.

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• Numbers 22:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  1. 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...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. And pitched in the plains of Moab - They had taken no part of the country that at present a...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the children of Israel set forward— After the entire conquest of the kingdom of Bashan, the Israelites marched back to the southward, and then bent their course toward the land of Canaan. They...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. The children of Israel set forward. The starting-point was Ije-Abarim 21:10; 33:48),...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The district in which the Israelites are encamped is called the plains of Moab, as it formed part of the territory of the Moabites before their conquest by the Amorites ( Numbers 21:26 ). On this...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XXII. (1) In the plains of Moab. — The Arboth Moab extended from Beth Jeshimoth (the house of wastes) to Abel Shittim (the meadow of acacias) ( Numbers 33:49 ), in the upper Arabah, the pr...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  BALAAM INVOKED Numbers 22:1-19 WHILE a part of the army of Israel was engaged in the campaign against Bashan, the tribes remained "in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho." The topog...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Balaam Sent for, to Curse Israel Numbers 22:1-20 These Chapter s present a surprising contrast between the covetous prophet and his sublime prophecies. It is clearly possible to be the mouthpie...

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• Numbers 22:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the story of BaIaarn. It is evident that he was a remarkable personality. He appears in the story as a man of integrity, who attempted a literal obedience to the will of God. We are ar...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS This is a very remarkable chapter, and merits particular attention. It commenceth the wonderful history of Balaam and his ass. There is much to be discovered in it of the LORD'S gracious de...

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• Numbers 22:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 22:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho. Ver. 1. In the plains of Moab. ] Once of Moab, then of the Amorites, now of the Israelit...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The plains of Moab Which still retained their ancient title, though they had been taken from the Moabites by Sihon, and from him by the Israelites. By Jericho That is, over against Jericho.

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• Numbers 22:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BALAK HIRING BALAAM (vs.1-21) Still within Moab, Israel moved again to the plains and camped near Jordan, across from Jericho. Moab had no power to withstand them, however, though Balak, king of...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Balak Sends for Balaam. B. C. 1452.       1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitche...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  NUMBERS CHAPTER 22 The Israelites pitch in the plains of Moab, Numbers 22:1 . Balak the king sends for Balaam to curse Israel, Numbers 22:2-8 . He inquires of the Lord, who forbids him to go:...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.' Their warfare being in successful process of completion, the people of Israel encamped in th...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES We now enter upon the last division of this Book, which comprises fifteen Chapter s (22–36). “In the steppes of Moab the Israelites encamped upon the border of the Pro...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 22:5 . To Pethor, which is by the river. A Pethor was in Mesopotamia; the river is thought to be the Euphrates, or one of its branches, distant at least 500 miles from Moab. Deuteronomy 2...

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• Numbers 22:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE COMING OF BALAAM ( Numbers 22:2-4 ). Numbers 22:2 Balak the son of Zippor. The name Balak is connected with a word "to make waste," and "Zippor" is a small bird. B...

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• Numbers 22:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And the children of Israel set forward and pitched in the Plains of Moab on this side Jordan, on the eastern side, by Jericho, for these rich bottom-lands had formerly been a part of Moabitis and w...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 1:5 ; Deuteronomy 3:8 ; Deuteronomy 34:1 ; Deuteronomy 34:8 ; Joshua 3:16 ; Numbers 21:20 ; Numbers 32:19 ; Numbers 33:48-50 ; Numbers 34:15 ; Numbers 36:13

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• Numbers 22:1 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Woes of the Wicked Balaam Selections from Numbers 22:1-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS One of the things which sadden the soul is the way that not only professing Christians, but real believing...

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• Numbers 22:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The plains of Moab — Which still retained their ancient title, though they had been taken away from the Moabites by Sihon, and from him by the Israelites. By Jericho — That is, over against Jericho...

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