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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 32:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ataroth, Dibon, and Jazer, etc.] These were places which belonged to the Amorites, and were taken from Sihon, their king: of Ataroth we read nowhere else but in this chapter; of Dibon (see <231502>Isaiah 15:2), Jazer was a city, from whence the land about it had its name; it is the same with Jaazer, (<042132>Numbers 21:32) and stood about fifteen miles from Heshbon f462, the capital city of the kingdom of Sihon: and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon; these were all places in the same country; of Heshbon see (<042125>Numbers 21:25,26 <231504>Isaiah 15:4), Nimrah is the same with Bethnimrah, (<043236>Numbers 32:36) and sometimes called Nimrim, famous for its water, (<231506>Isaiah 15:6). Jerom says f463 the name of it in his time was Benamerium, and lay to the north of Zoar; Elealeh, according to the same writer f464 was but a mile from Heshbon, of which (see <231504>Isaiah 15:4). Shebam is the same with Shibmah, (<043236>Numbers 32:36), and seems to be a place famous for vines, (<231608>Isaiah 16:8 <244832>Jeremiah 48:32); it is thought to be the same with the Seba of Ptolemy f465, and according to Jerom f466, there were scarce five hundred paces between this place and Heshbon; Nebo, the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call the grave of Moses, because on a mountain of this name Moses died, and where it is supposed he was buried; but it is certain he was buried not on a mountain, but in a valley, (<053406>Deuteronomy 34:6), this perhaps had its name from the mountain near which it was, and of which (see <231502>Isaiah 15:2). Beon is the same that is called Baalmeon, (<043238>Numbers 32:38) and Bethbaalmeon, (<061317>Joshua 13:17), where was very probably a temple of Baal; it was about nine miles from Heshbon f467.
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