Numbers 21:15 (BSB)

even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

From Numbers 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 21:15

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 21:10-20: We have here an account of the several stages and removals of the children of Israel, till they came into the plains of Moab, out of which they at length passed over Jordan into Canaan, as we read in the beginning of Joshua. Natural motions are quicker the nearer they are to their centre.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 21:15: And from thence they went to Beer,.... A place so called from a well which sprung up here, of which the following account is given: that is, the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses; promising him to give it to the children of Israel, without asking for it; which was a very singular favour, and for which they were thankful: saying to him: gather...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 21:10-20: Num 21:10-20 March of Israel round Edom and Moab, to the Heights of Pisgah in the Field of Moab (cf. Num 33:41-47). - Num 21:10. From the camp in the Arabah, which is not more particularly described, where the murmuring people were punished by fiery serpents, Israel removed to Oboth.