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Numbers 21:20

They traveled from Bamoth to the Valley of Moab. In this place the top of the Pisgah Mountain looks over the desert.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bamoth;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mountains;   Pisgah, Mount;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Mountains;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bamah, Plural Bamoth;   Desert;   Pisgah;   Serpents;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pisgah;   Reuben;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bamoth;   Desert;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bamoth-Baal;   Jeshimon;   Moab;   Pisgah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bamoth;   Field;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jephthah;   Jeshimon;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Pisgah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arnon ;   Bamoth ;   Jeshimon ;   Moab, Moabites ;   Pisgah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bamah;   Mount pisgah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Pisgah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jesh'imon;   Pis'gah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bamoth;   Head;   Jeshimon;   Moses;   Pisgah;   Vale;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nebo, Mount;   Pisgah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and from Bamot to the valley that is in the field of Mo'av, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
King James Version
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Lexham English Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland.
English Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.
New Century Version
From Bamoth they went to the valley of Moab where the top of Mount Pisgah looks over the desert.
New English Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.
Amplified Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.
New American Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the desert.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the plaine of Moab, to the top of Pisgah that looketh toward Ieshimon.
Legacy Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland.
Contemporary English Version
Finally, they reached Moabite territory, where they camped near Mount Pisgah in a valley overlooking the desert north of the Dead Sea.
Complete Jewish Bible
and from Bamot to the valley by the plain of Mo'av at the start of the Pisgah range, where it overlooks the desert.
Darby Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the fields of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks over the surface of the waste.
George Lamsa Translation
And from Bamoth in the valley, which is in the country of Moab, to the top of the hill which looks toward Ashimon (the desert).
Good News Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of the Moabites, below the top of Mount Pisgah, looking out over the desert.
Christian Standard Bible®
from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.
Literal Translation
and from Bamoth in the valley which is in the field of Moab to the top of Pisgah, and looking toward the wilderness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and fro Bamoth vnto the valley that lieth in ye felde of Moab at the toppe of Pisga, and turneth towarde the wyldernesse.
American Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Bible in Basic English
And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And from Bamoth of the valley that is in the fielde of Moab, vnto the top of the hyll that loketh towarde Iesimon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
King James Version (1611)
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the countrey of Moab, to the toppe of Pisgah, which looketh toward Ieshimon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses sent ambassadors to Seon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,
English Revised Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Berean Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bamoth is a valey in the cuntrey of Moab, in the cop of Phasga, that biholdith ayens the deseert.
Young's Literal Translation
and from Bamoth in the valley which [is] in the field of Moab [to] the top of Pisgah, which hath looked on the front of the wilderness.
Update Bible Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
Webster's Bible Translation
And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh towards Jeshimon.
World English Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
New King James Version
and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland. [fn]
New Living Translation
After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.
New Life Bible
From Bamoth they went to the valley in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.
New Revised Standard
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that overlooks the wasteland.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, from Bamoth of the valley, which is in the field-country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, - which over-looketh Jeshimon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
Revised Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland.

Contextual Overview

10 The Israelites left that place and camped at Oboth. 11 Then they left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the desert east of Moab. 12 They left that place and camped in Zered Valley. 13 Then they moved and camped across from the Arnon River in the desert. This river started at the Ammonite border. The valley was the border between Moab and the Amorites. 14 That is why these words are written in the Book of the Wars of the Lord : "… and Waheb in Suphah, and the Valleys of the Arnon, 15 and the hills by the valleys that lead to the town of Ar. These places are at the border of Moab." 16 The Israelites left that place and traveled to Beer. There is a well in Beer, where the Lord said to Moses, "Bring the people together here, and I will give them water." 17 Then the Israelites sang this song: "Well, flow with water! Sing about it! 18 Great men dug this well. Important leaders dug this well. They dug this well with their staffs and walking sticks. It is a gift in the desert." 19 The people traveled from Mattanah to Nahaliel. Then they traveled from Nahaliel to Bamoth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

country: Heb. field, Numbers 22:1, Numbers 26:63, Numbers 33:49, Numbers 33:50, Deuteronomy 1:5

to the: Numbers 23:14, Deuteronomy 3:27, Deuteronomy 4:49, Deuteronomy 34:1

Pisgah: or the hill

Jeshimon: or, the wilderness, Numbers 23:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:2 - General Numbers 22:41 - high places Numbers 32:34 - Dibon Numbers 33:47 - the mountains Deuteronomy 11:29 - General Joshua 12:3 - Ashdothpisgah

Cross-References

Genesis 10:9
He was a great hunter before the Lord . That is why people compare other men to him and say, "That man is like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord ."
Genesis 16:12
Ishmael will be wild and free like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will move from place to place and camp near his brothers."
Genesis 17:20
"You mentioned Ishmael, and I heard you. I will bless him, and he will have many children. He will be the father of twelve great leaders. His family will become a great nation.
Genesis 21:2
At exactly the time God said it would happen, Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham named his son Isaac.
Genesis 21:23
So make a promise to me here before God. Promise that you will be fair with me and with my children. Promise that you will be kind to me and this country where you have lived. Promise that you will be as kind to me as I have been to you."
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, "I promise to treat you the same way you have treated me."
Genesis 21:25
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech because Abimelech's servants had captured a well of water.
Genesis 25:27
The boys grew up. Esau became a skilled hunter, who loved to be out in the fields. But Jacob was a quiet man, who stayed at home.
Genesis 27:3
So take your bow and arrows and go hunting. Kill an animal for me to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And from Bamoth, [in] the valley,.... Or rather "to the valley", as the Targum of Onkelos, since Bamoth signifies high places; though, according to the Jerusalem Talmud o, Bamoth, Baal, which seems to be the same place, was in a plain:

that is in the country of Moab; the valley belonged to Moab, into which Israel came:

to the top of Pisgah; not that the valley reached to the top, nor did the children of Israel go to the top of it, only Moses, but rather to the bottom, which indeed is meant; for it intends the beginning of it, where Pisgah, which was an high mountain near the plains of Moab, began, and which was properly the foot of it:

which looketh towards Jeshimon; that is, Pisgah, as Jarchi rightly interprets it, which looked over a place called Jeshimon; and which signifies a wilderness, and is no other indeed than the wilderness of Kedemoth, Deuteronomy 2:26 for from thence the following messengers were sent.

o Sheviith, fol. 38. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Numbers 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 Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 48:22 on the western slope of the ridge.


 
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