Numbers 21:11

21:11 Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side.

Numbers 33:49

33:49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.


sn These places are uncertain. Oboth may be some 15 miles (25 km) from the south end of the Dead Sea at a place called ‘Ain el-Weiba. Iye Abarim may be the modern Mahay at the southeastern corner of Moab. See J. Simons, The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament.

tn Heb “the rising of the sun.”