Numbers 22:1
The people of Israel traveled on until they camped in the plains of Moab near Jericho, on the other side of the Jordan River from the city.
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2Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
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Numbers 21:20and from Bamoth to a valley in the land of Moab. That is where the top of Mount Pisgah looks down on the wilderness.
Numbers 31:12They brought the prisoners, the plunder, and the captured things to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the people of Israel. They brought these to the camp in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 33:48They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 34:15The two tribes and the half tribe have received their share of land beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
Numbers 36:13These are the commands and the decrees that Yahweh gave by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy 3:8At that time we took the land 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 →