Numbers 22:1
Then the Israelis traveled west to the area of Moab that was in the valley of the Jordan River, across the river from Jericho city.
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Numbers 21:20Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Mountain rises above the desert.
Numbers 31:12They brought all these to Eliezer and Moses/me, and to the rest of the Israeli people who were at their/our camp on the plains where the Moab people-group lived, near the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Numbers 33:48Then they/we left the Abarim Mountains and went to the plains of the Moab region, near the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Numbers 34:15They have received land on the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho.”
Numbers 36:13Those were the commands [DOU] that Yahweh gave to Moses/me to tell to the Israelis, while they/we were on the plains of the Moab region, close to the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Deuteronomy 3:8“So at that time we took from those two kings of the Amor people-group all the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Hermon Mountain in the north.”
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 →