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New Living Translation

Numbers 21:20

After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
They traveled from Bamoth to the Valley of Moab. In this place the top of the Pisgah Mountain looks over the desert.
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 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 traveled next to Oboth and camped there. 11 Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab. 12 From there they traveled to the valley of Zered Brook and set up camp. 13 Then they moved out and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness adjacent to the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the boundary line between the Moabites and the Amorites. 14 For this reason The Book of the Wars of the Lord speaks of "the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the ravines of the Arnon River, 15 and the ravines that extend as far as the settlement of Ar on the border of Moab." 16 From there the Israelites traveled to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, "Assemble the people, and I will give them water." 17 There the Israelites sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Yes, sing its praises! 18 Sing of this well, which princes dug, which great leaders hollowed out with their scepters and staffs." Then the Israelites left the wilderness and proceeded on through Mattanah, 19 Nahaliel, and 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
Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, "This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world."
Genesis 16:12
This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives."
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:2
She became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. This happened at just the time God had said it would.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham named their son Isaac.
Genesis 21:23
"Swear to me in God's name that you will never deceive me, my children, or any of my descendants. I have been loyal to you, so now swear that you will be loyal to me and to this country where you are living as a foreigner."
Genesis 21:24
Abraham replied, "Yes, I swear to it!"
Genesis 21:25
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech's servants had taken by force from Abraham's servants.
Genesis 25:27
As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.
Genesis 27:3
Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.

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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