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32 We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.”
33 So aMoses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, bthe kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.  
34 And the children of Gad built aDibon and Ataroth and bAroer,  
35 Atroth and Shophan and aJazer and Jogbehah,  
36 aBeth Nimrah and Beth Haran, bfortified cities, and folds for sheep.  
37 And the children of Reuben built aHeshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,  
38 aNebo and bBaal Meon c(their names being changed) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.  
39 And the children of aMachir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.  
40 So Moses agave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.  
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Numbers 32:34-36

The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Numbers 21:19. The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the Gadites, and assigned by Joshua to the Reubenites, was eventually recaptured by the Moabites, in whose hands it remained. Ataroth, i. e., "crowns" (Attarus?) was seven miles northwest of Dibon. Aroer (Arair) lay between Dibon and the Arnon.

Atroth, Shophan - , was Atroth-Shophan, i. e., Atroth, or Ataroth of Shophan, or "of the burrow;" thus distinguished from the Ataroth named in the verse preceding from which it was probably not far distant. These four cities may be styled the Dibon settlement.

Numbers 32:35

Jaazer - (compare Numbers 32:1) with the neighboring "Jogbehah" (Jebeiha), seven miles to the northeast, formed the second group.

Numbers 32:36

The third Gadite settlement lay in the valley of the Jordan, to the west of the preceding. It comprised the cities of Bethnimrah (Nimrun) and "Beth-haran" (Beit-ha-ran).




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 32:34:

Exodus 23:31
Numbers 32:3

 

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