Numbers 21:1-16
Arad <06166> [Arad.]
road ... Atharim <0871 01870> [the way of the spies.]
Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word {atharim,} rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name ([Atharein,] Atharim).
fought <03898> [then.]
made <05087> [vowed.]
utterly <02763> [I will.]
listened <08085> [hearkened.]
utterly <02763> [and they utterly.]
{Wyyacharem,} rather with the LXX. [kai anethematisen,] "and they anathematised, or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua. (Jos 12:14.)
name <08034> [the name.]
{Hormah,} that is, utter destruction. {Chormah,} rather a devoting to destruction: so LXX. [Anathema,] and Tremellius, {devotio sive anathema.}
Mount Hor <02023 02022> [mount Hor.]
road .................... way <01870> [by the way.]
around <05437> [compass.]
<05315> [the soul.]
impatient <07114> [discouraged. or, grieved. Heb. shortened.]
spoke <01696> [spake.]
detest <05315> [and our soul.]
sinned ..... spoken <02398 01696> [We have.]
Pray ................ prayed <06419> [pray.]
Moses ............................... Moses <04872> [And Moses.]
bronze snake ............ snake .......... bronze snake <05175 05178> [A serpent of.]
looked <05027> [when he.]
<02425> [he lived.]
Oboth <088> [Oboth.]
Probably Oboda, a city of Arabia Petr‘a, mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.
Iye Abarim <05863> [Ije-abarim. or, heaps of Abarim.]
valley ... Zered <02218 05158> [the valley of Zared.]
[the brook Zered.]
Book <05612> [in the book.]
Waheb <02052> [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 ver. 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 <06144> [Ar.]
falls off <08172> [lieth. Heb. leaneth.]
Beer <0876> [Beer.]
Gather <0622> [Gather.]
