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Selected Verse: Numbers 31:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 31:10 |
King James |
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Goodly castles - Rather, both here and in Gen 25:16, hamlets. The word is derived from a word טוּר ṭûr,) signifying "a row" or "range" (compare Eze 46:23); and probably indicates those collections of rude dwellings, made of stones piled one on another and covered with tent-cloths, which are used by the Arabs to this day; and which are frequently mentioned as douars in narratives of the French campaigns in Algeria. These dwellings would be formed usually in a circle. See the word "Hazeroth," in Num 11:35. |
35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.