Numbers 33:49
Thus did they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth unto Abel-Shittim [that is, "The acacia—meadows"] —in the waste plains of Moab.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
In Context
50And Yahweh spake unto Moses, in the waste plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho saying:
Cross References
Exodus 25:5and rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins and acacia wood;
Exodus 25:23And thou shalt make a table, of acacia wood, two cubits, the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Joshua 2:1Then did Joshua son of Nun, send out from The Acacias, two men to spy out silently, saying, Go view the land, and Jericho. So they came, and entered the house of a harlot, whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
Ezekiel 25:9Therefore, behold me! laying open the side of Moab out of the cities, Out of his cities on his frontiers, The beauty of the land of Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim:
Matthew Henry on Numbers 33:2-50
Encampments of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord : and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an… Read the whole commentary →