Numbers 21:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

they went. No mention is made of any of these places in the itinerary in Numbers 33. Why not supply "[the waters or streams] went" into all these places? See Numbers 21:16. The Structure shows the scope of this member to be an "event"; "journeys" are the subject of the preceding member. Compare note on Exodus 15:27. Note the Alternation, which gives the interpretation: The princes digged the well; The nobles of the people digged it, With the lawgiver [They digged it] with their staves.

Numbers 21:18

18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: