Numbers 22:1
And the children of Israel set forward, and encamped in the plains of Moab, on this side of the Jordan, opposite Jericho.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Emorites.
Cross References
Numbers 21:20And from Bamoth to the valley, which is in the fields of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward the desert.
Numbers 31:12And they brought unto Moses, and to Elazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, the captives, and the booty, and the spoil, unto the camp, to the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Numbers 33:48And they removed from the mountains of 'Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Numbers 34:15The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho eastward, toward the rising of the sun.
Numbers 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, in the plain of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Deuteronomy 3:8And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emorites the land which is on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Chermon;
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 →