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Numbers 21:20

Numbers 21:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And from Bamoth, [in] the valley,.... Or rather "to the valley", as the Targum of Onkelos, since Bamoth signifies high places; though, according to the Jerusalem Talmud , Bamoth, Baal, which seems to be the same place, was in a plain:that is in the country of Moab; the valley belonged to Moab, into which Israel came:to the top of Pisgah; not that the valley reached to the top, nor did the children of Israel go to the top of it, only Moses, but rather to the bottom, which indeed is meant; for it intends the beginning of it, where Pisgah, which was an high mountain near the plains of Moab, began, and which was properly the foot of it:which looketh towards Jeshimon; that is, Pisgah, as Jarchi rightly interprets it, which looked over a place called Jeshimon; and which signifies a wilderness, and is no other indeed than the wilderness of Kedemoth, De 2:26 for from thence the following messengers were sent.

Sheviith, fol. 38.

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