King James Version
Numbers 33:50 in the King James Version says “And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,”
Numbers 33:50 · KJV
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab. Abelshittim: or, the plains of Shittim
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“in the plains”
H6160a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the jordan and its continuation to the red sea
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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