Numbers 21:18

The well which the princes digged, the chiefs of the people cut it, the scribes with their staves; it was given to them in the wilderness.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

In Context

17Therefore sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it.

19And from (the time) that it was given to them it descended with them to the rivers, and from the rivers it went up with them to the height,

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Cross References

Numbers 33:45And they removed from the Fords, and pitched at Dibon Gad.

Deuteronomy 33:4Mosheh gave to us the law and delivered it an inheritance to the congregation of Jakob.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:11-21

The Removal of the Camp. ( b. c. 1452.) 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. 13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is… Read the whole commentary →

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