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Selected Verse: Numbers 21:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 21:20 |
King James |
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
In the country of Moab - Rather, in the field of Moab: the upland pastures, or flat downs, intersected by the ravine of Wady Waleh.
Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon - Or, "toward the waste." See Num 33:47. Pisgah was a ridge of the Abarim mountains, westward from Heshbon. From the summit the Israelites gained their first view of the wastes of the Dead Sea and of the valley of the Jordan: and Moses again ascended it, to view, before his death, the land of promise. The interest attaching to the spot, and the need of a convenient name for it, has led Christians often to designate it as "Nebo," rather than as "the mountain of, or near to, Nebo;" but the latter is the more correct: Nebo denoted the town Isa 15:2; Jer 48:1, Jer 48:22 on the western slope of the ridge. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Pisgah - This was the top of those high hills of Abarim. |
22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
47 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.