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A Real Journey to a Real Place
Commentators explain that these are not mythical locations but real places on Israel's route. Scholars identify Nahaliel as meaning 'brook of God' and Bamoth as 'the high places of Baal.' This detail grounds the final stages of their wilderness journey in actual history and geography as they approached the promised land.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 21:19
18th Century
Theologian
Nahaliel - that is, “brook of God;” the modern Wady Enkheileh. The Israelites must have crossed the stream not much above Ar.
Bamot…
John Gill
On Numbers 21:19
17th Century
Pastor
And from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth.
All the Targums interpret this, and the following verse, …
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 21:10–20
17th Century
Minister
We have here the journeys of the children of Israel, until they came to the plains of Moab, from where they passed over the Jordan into Canaan. The…