Numbers 22:1

children. sons.

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

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¹ And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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