King James Version
Numbers 21:12 in the King James Version says “From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.”
Numbers 21:12 · KJV
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising . Ijeabarim: or, heaps of Abarim
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, What: or, Vaheb in Suphah
KJV Study — Public Domain
“From thence they removed”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“and pitched”
H2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or s
“in the valley”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
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