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Good News Translation

Numbers 21:11

After leaving that place, they camped at the ruins of Abarim in the wilderness east of Moabite territory.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abarim;   Serpents;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Moab;   Palestine;   Reuben;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Iim;   Jephthah;   Moab;   Well;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Iye-Abarim;   Oboth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abarim;   Israel;   Iye-Abarim;   Jephthah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Oboth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ijeabarim ;   Moab, Moabites ;   Oboth ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abarim;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - I'je-Ab'arim;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abarim;   Anakim;   Iye-Abarim;   Moses;   Oboth;   Sunrising;   Wanderings of Israel;   Zered;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Mizraḥ;   Wilderness;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Ovot, and encamped at `Iye-Avarim, in the wilderness which is before Mo'av, toward the sunrise.
King James Version
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab toward the sunrise.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
New Century Version
They went from Oboth to Iye Abarim, in the desert east of Moab.
New English Translation
Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side.
Amplified Bible
They journeyed on from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness facing Moab, toward the sunrise.
New American Standard Bible
Then they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, to the east.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Oboth, & pitched in lie-abarim, in the wildernesse, which is before Moab on the Eastside.
Legacy Standard Bible
They then set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, east toward the sunrise.
Contemporary English Version
then at Iye-Abarim in the desert east of Moab,
Complete Jewish Bible
From Ovot they traveled and camped at ‘Iyei-Ha‘avarim, in the desert fronting Mo'av on the east.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Oboth, and encamped at Ijim-Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, toward the sun-rising.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then they left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the desert east of Moab.
George Lamsa Translation
And they journeyed from Aboth, and encamped at the Een di Ebraye (the spring of the Hebrews), in the wilderness which is before Moab, to the east toward the sunrise.
Christian Standard Bible®
They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Oboth, and camped in Ijeabarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, toward the rising of the sun.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And from Oboth they wente on, and pitched in Igim by Abarim in the wyldernesse ouer agaynst Moab, on the Eastsyde.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Bible in Basic English
And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Oboth, and pitched at the heapes of Abarim, euen in the wildernesse which is before Moab, on the east syde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising.
King James Version (1611)
And they iourneyed from Oboth, and pitched at Iie-Abarim, in the wildernes which is before Moab, toward the Sunne rising.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Berean Standard Bible
They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and settiden tentis in Oboth; fro whennus thei yeden forth, and settiden tentis in Neabarym, in the wildirnesse, that biholdith Moab, ayens the eest coost.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Oboth, and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the wilderness that [is] on the front of Moab, at the rising of the sun.
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, towards the sun-rising.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
New King James Version
And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise.
New Living Translation
Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab.
New Life Bible
Then they left Oboth and stopped at Iye-abarim, in the desert beside Moab, to the east.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Oboth, and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness bordering Moab toward the sunrise.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Oboth, - and encamped in Ije-Abarim, in the desert which is over against Moab, towards the rising of the sun.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Oboth, and encamped at I'ye-ab'arim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, to the east.

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

Oboth: Probably Oboda, a city of Arabia Petrea, mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.

Ijeabarim: or, heaps of Abarim, Numbers 21:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 33:44 - Ijeabarim Judges 11:18 - came by

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"
Genesis 21:1
The Lord blessed Sarah, as he had promised,
Genesis 21:2
and she became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the time God had said he would be born.
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was overcome with grief. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he cried, "O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!"
Matthew 10:37
"Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.
Hebrews 12:11
When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they journeyed from Oboth,.... How long they stayed there is not certain:

and pitched at Ijeabarim; which, according to Bunting k, was sixteen miles from Oboth; Jarchi says it was the way that passengers pass by Mount Nebo to the land of Canaan, and which divides between the land of Moab and the land of the Amorites:

in the wilderness which is before Moab; called the wilderness of Moab, Deuteronomy 2:8

towards the sunrising; the east side of the land of Moab,

Judges 11:18.

k Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. 83.)

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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