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Numbers 21:18

A well!—princes digged it, Nobles of the people, delved it, With a sceptre, With their staves. And, from the desert, to Mattanah;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

17Then, sang Israel this song,—Spring thou up, O well! Respond ye thereunto;

19and from Mattanah, to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel, to Bamoth;

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Cross References

Numbers 33:45And they brake up from Iyim,—and encamped in Dibon-gad.

Deuteronomy 33:4A law, did Moses command us,—A possession, for the convocation of Jacob.

Nehemiah 3:1Then arose Eliashib the high priest and his brethren the priests, and built the sheep-gate, they, hallowed it, and set up the doors thereof,—even unto the tower of Hammeah, hallowed they it, unto the tower of Hananel;

Isaiah 33:22For, Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh, is our lawgiver,—Yahweh, is our king, He will save us!

1 Timothy 6:17Upon them who are rich in the present age, lay thou charge—not to be high-minded, nor to have set their hope on, riches’, uncertainty,—but on God, who offereth us all things richly for enjoying,

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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