Numbers 32:38

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (changing their names), and Sibmah. In fact they renamed those towns they rebuilt.

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In The King James Version

And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

In Context

37The people of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

39The descendants of Machir, son of Manasseh, attacked Gilead and captured it. They drove out the Amorites who were living there.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:18He unblocked the wells that had been dug in his father Abraham's time—the ones the Philistines had blocked after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had.

Numbers 22:41The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the extent of the Israelite camp.

Deuteronomy 32:50There on the mountain you've climbed, you will die and join your people in death, in the same way your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and joined his people.

Psalms 16:4Those who run after other gods will face a lot of trouble. I will not participate in their offerings of blood, I will not even speak the names of their gods.

Jeremiah 48:21Punishment has arrived on the towns of the high plain—on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42

Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →

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