Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 21:19
And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
19. and from Mattanah to Nahaliel ] If Budde’s suggestion in the preceding note is correct, the original reading here was perhaps ‘and from thence to N.’, as in Num 21:16 after the insertion of the foregoing song, or, following the hint in the LXX. , ‘and from Beer to N.’
Nahaliel is unknown. It means ‘the wady of God.’ G. A. Smith ( H. G. [Note: . G. Historical Geography of the Holy Land.] 562) suggests the Wady Zerk Ma‘n with its healing springs, which flows into the Dead Sea about midway between its northern end and the mouth of the Arnon.
Bamoth ] The name means ‘high places.’ These were numerous in the hilly country of Moab, so that the place cannot be safely identified. It is probably an abbreviation of a compound name, and may be the same as Bamoth-Baal (Num 22:41 marg., Jos 13:17). ‘Beth-Bamoth’ (perhaps the same place) occurs in Mesha’s inscription, known as the Moabite stone. (See Hastings’ DB. iii. 407.) Bamoth was probably a high place not far south of the ‘valley’ of Num 21:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Nahaliel – i. e. brook of God; the modern Wady Enkheileh. The Israelites must have crossed the stream not much above Ar.
Bamoth – Otherwise Bamoth-baal, the high places of Baal Num 22:41 : mentioned as near Dibon (Dhiban) in Jos 13:17, and Isa 15:2. See Num 32:34.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
See Poole “Num 21:16“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth. All the Targums interpret this, and the following verse, not of the journeying of the children of Israel, but of the motion of the well, that that, from the place from whence it was given them, descended with them into the valleys, and from thence to the high places, as these words signify: and indeed those places are not mentioned in the journeys of the children of Israel, Nu 33:1 and were not stations where they pitched, but places they passed through before they came to Abarim, and the wilderness of Kedemoth.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19. Nahaliel to Bamoth Neither of these can be certainly identified.
The former is supposed to be some wady north of the Arnon, and the latter Knobel identifies with “the high places of Baal,” or Bamoth-baal (Num 22:41) on the modern Jebel Attarus, the site being marked by stone heaps. See Jos 13:17, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Here we are come to the end of Moses’ journey; for from the heights of Pisgah, he was permitted to see, but not go over, to the promised land. Deu 34:1-5 . It is somewhat singular, but worthy to be observed in this place, that although we have several chapters more to go through, in this book, as well as the whole book of Deuteronomy, concerning Moses; yet there was but a short space between the death of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses; they all died in one year.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Num 22:41 – high places Jos 13:17 – Bamothbaal