Num 21:14-20 | TSK | e4.org | in the book ; What he did or, Vaheb in Suphah, The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; (which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree, upon their borders); and from the wilderness (or the well, as in LXX) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of this, from , is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every difficulty.

‏ Numbers 21:14-20

What he did or, Vaheb in Suphah, The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; (which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree, upon their borders); and from the wilderness (or the well, as in LXX) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of this, from Num 21:14-20, is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every difficulty.

Ar Num 21:28; Deut 2:9, Deut 2:18, Deut 2:29; Isa 15:1

lieth Heb. leaneth

Beer Judg 9:21

Gather Num 20:8; Exod 17:6; Isa 12:3, Isa 41:17-18, Isa 43:20, Isa 49:10; John 4:10, John 4:14; John 7:37-39; Rev 21:6, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17

sang Exod 15:1-2; Judg 5:1; Ps 105:2, Ps 106:12; Isa 12:1-2, Isa 12:5; Jas 5:13

Spring up Heb. ascend

sing ye or answer

princes 2Chr 17:7-9; Neh 3:1, Neh 3:5; 1Tim 6:17-18

the lawgiver Deut 5:31, Deut 33:4; Isa 33:22; John 1:17; Jas 4:12

And from Num 33:45-47

country Heb. field, Num 22:1, Num 26:63, Num 33:49-50; Deut 1:5

to the Num 23:14; Deut 3:27, Deut 4:49, Deut 34:1

Pisgah or the hill

Jeshimon or, the wilderness, Num 23:28