Deuteronomy 3 · Verse 29

Deuteronomy 3:29

So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.

Deuteronomy 3:29, King James Version

Deuteronomy 3:29 in other translations

BSB	So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
WEB	So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
ASV	So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
YLT	‘And we dwell in a valley over-against Beth-Peor.
DARBY	And we abode in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor.
BBE	So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.
Webster	So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.

What does Deuteronomy 3:29 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 29 Beth-peor - This was a city in the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites; and as בית beth signifies a house, the place probably had its name from a temple of the god Peor, who was worshipped there. Peor was nearly the same among the Moabites that Priapus was among the Romans - the obscene god of an obscene people. This we have already seen. It is very likely that what God speaks here, both concerning Moses and Joshua, was designed to be typical of the procedure of his justice and grace in the salvation of man. 1. The land of Canaan was a type of the kingdom of heaven. 2. The law, which shows the holiness of God and the exceeding sinfulness of sin, could not bring the people to the possession of that kingdom. 3. Moses may probably be considered here as the emblem of that law by which is the knowledge of sin, but not redemption from it 4. Joshua, the same as Jesus, the name signifying a Savior, is appointed to bring the people into the rest which God had provided for them; thus it is by Jesus Christ alone that the soul is saved - fitted for and brought into the possession of the heavenly inheritance, (see Joh 1:17; Gal 2:16; Gal 3:12, Gal 3:13, Gal 3:24); for he is the end of the law - the great scope and design of the law, for righteousness - for justification, to them that believe; Rom 10:4. Such a use as this every pious reader may make of the circumstances recorded here, without the danger of pushing analogy or metaphor beyond their reasonable limits.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:21-29

Moses encouraged Joshua, who was to succeed him. Thus the aged and experienced in the service of God, should do all they can to strengthen the hands of those who are young, and setting out in religion. Consider what God has done, what God has promised. If God be for us, who can be against us, so as to prevail? We reproach our Leader if we follow him trembling. Moses prayed, that, if it were God's will, he might go…

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Deuteronomy 3:29 in the original Hebrew

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וַנֵּ֣שֶׁבva.Ne.shevand we remainedH3427

בַּגָּ֔יְאba.Gay'in the valleyH1516

מ֖וּלmulopposite toH4136

בֵּ֥יתbeitBethH1047

פְּעֽוֹר\׃\ \פpe.'orPeorH1047

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 3:29

Deuteronomy 4:46
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth–peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 34:6
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth–peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Numbers 25:3
And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Numbers 33:48-49
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 Beth–jesimoth even unto Abel–shittim in the plains of Moab.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

4:3,46; 34:6; Nu 25:3; 33:48,49

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Context

Deuteronomy 3:28
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy 3:29
So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.

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Deuteronomy 3:29 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y paramos en el valle delante de Beth-peor.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et nous avons habité dans la vallée, vis-à-vis de Beth-Péor.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und wir blieben im Tale, Beth-Peor gegenüber.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Mansimusque in valle contra fanum Phogor.