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Good News Translation

Numbers 21:10

The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Oboth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Serpents;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Moab;   Palestine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Oboth;   Well;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Oboth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jephthah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Oboth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oboth ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Oboth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - O'both;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forward;   Moses;   Oboth;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nehushtan;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el journeyed, and encamped in Ovot.
King James Version
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Lexham English Bible
The Israelites set out and encamped at Oboth.
English Standard Version
And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth.
New Century Version
The Israelites went and camped at Oboth.
New English Translation
The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.
Amplified Bible
Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped at Oboth.
New American Standard Bible
Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped in Oboth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye children of Israel departed thence, and pitched in Oboth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the sons of Israel set out and camped in Oboth.
Contemporary English Version
As the Israelites continued their journey to Canaan, they camped at Oboth,
Complete Jewish Bible
The people of Isra'el traveled on and camped at Ovot.
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites left that place and camped at Oboth.
George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Aboth.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and encamped in Oboth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel departed, and pitched in Oboth.
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
Bible in Basic English
Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Israel departed thence, and pitched in Oboth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
King James Version (1611)
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel yeden forth,
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel journey, and encamp in Oboth.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel moved forward, and pitched in Oboth.
World English Bible
The children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
New King James Version
Now the children of Israel moved on and camped in Oboth.
New Living Translation
The Israelites traveled next to Oboth and camped there.
New Life Bible
The people of Israel traveled on, and set up their tents in Oboth.
New Revised Standard
The Israelites set out, and camped in Oboth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Israel brake up, - and encamped in Oboth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
Revised Standard Version
And the people of Israel set out, and encamped in Oboth.
THE MESSAGE
The People of Israel set out and camped at Oboth. They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab on the east. They went from there and pitched camp in the Zered Valley. Their next camp was alongside the Arnon River, which marks the border between Amorite country and Moab. The Book of the Wars of God refers to this place: Waheb in Suphah, the canyons of Arnon; Along the canyon ravines that lead to the village Ar And lean hard against the border of Moab.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped in Oboth.

Contextual Overview

10 The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth. 11 After leaving that place, they camped at the ruins of Abarim in the wilderness east of Moabite territory. 12 Then they camped in Zered Valley. 13 From there they moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness which extends into Amorite territory. (The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.) 14 That is why The Book of the Lord 's Battles speaks of "… the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the valleys; the Arnon River, 15 and the slope of the valleys that extend to the town of Ar and toward the border of Moab." 16 From there they went on to a place called Wells, where the Lord said to Moses, "Bring the people together, and I will give them water." 17 At that time the people of Israel sang this song: "Wells, produce your water; And we will greet it with a song— 18 The well dug by princes And by leaders of the people, Dug with a royal scepter And with their walking sticks." They moved from the wilderness to Mattanah, 19 and from there they went on to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 33:43-45

Reciprocal: Judges 11:18 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:21
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
Genesis 20:11
Abraham answered, "I thought that there would be no one here who has reverence for God and that they would kill me to get my wife.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:7
Then she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
Genesis 21:11
This troubled Abraham very much, because Ishmael also was his son.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech went with Phicol, the commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 21:31
And so the place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them made a vow.
Genesis 22:10
Then he picked up the knife to kill him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel set forward,.... From Zalmonah, and came to Punon, which, according to the above writer, was twenty miles from it; though here indeed, some think, the brazen serpent was set up, here being, as before observed, brass mines to furnish with that metal:

and pitched in Oboth; which was twenty four miles from Punon, as says the same writer: the word signifies bottles; perhaps here the Israelites got water and filled their bottles, or, as others think, they filled them with the wine of Moab, and called the name of the place from thence; it is perhaps the same with the Eboda of Ptolemy h, which he places in Arabia Petraea; and of which Pliny i also makes mention.

h Geograph. l. 5. c. 17. i Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The earlier stations in this part of their journey were Zalmonah and Punon Numbers 33:41-42. Oboth was north of Punon, east of the northern part of Edom, and is pretty certainly the same as the present pilgrim halting-place el-Ahsa. Ije (“ruinous heaps”) of Abarim, or Iim of Abarim, was so called to distinguish it from another Iim in southwestern Canaan Joshua 15:29. Abarim denotes generally the whole upland country on the east of the Jordan. The Greek equivalent of the name is Peraea.


 
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