Numbers 22:1
And the sons of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Cross References
Numbers 21:20and from Bamoth to the valley which is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down upon the desert.
Numbers 31:12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 33:48And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 34:15The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.
Numbers 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which LORD commanded by Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy 3:8And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to mount Hermon
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:1
At this chapter begins the famous story of Balak and Balaam, their attempt to curse Israel, and the baffling of that attempt; God's people are long afterwards told to remember what Balak the king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, that they might know the righteousness of the Lord, Mic. vi. 5 . In this chapter we have, I. Balak's fear of Israel, and the plot he had to get them cursed, ver. 1-4 . II. The embassy he sent to Balaam, a conjurer, to fetch him for that purpose, and the… Read the whole commentary →