Numbers 21 · Verse 12

Numbers 21:12

From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
Numbers 21:12, King James Version

Numbers 21:12 in other translations

BSBFrom there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.
WEBFrom there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
ASVFrom thence they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
YLTFrom thence they have journeyed, and encamp in the valley of Zared.
DARBYFrom thence they removed, and encamped at the torrent Zered.
BBEAnd moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
WebsterFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

What does Numbers 21:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. pitched in the valley--literally, the "woody brook-valley" of Zared (De 2:13; Is 15:7; Am 6:14). This torrent rises among the mountains to the east of Moab, and flowing west, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Ije-Abarim is supposed to have been its ford [Calmet].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 They - pitched in the valley of Zared - נחל זרד nachal zared. This should be translated the brook Zared, as it is in Deu 2:13, Deu 2:14. This stream has its origin in the mountains eastward of Moab, and runs from east to west, and discharges itself into the Dead Sea.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 21:10-20

We have here the removes of the children of Israel, till they came to the plains of Moab, from whence they passed over Jordan into Canaan. The end of their pilgrimage was near. "They set forward." It were well if we did thus; and the nearer we come to heaven, were so much the more active and abundant in the work of the Lord. The wonderful success God granted to his people, is here spoken of, and, among the rest…

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Numbers 21:12 in the original Hebrew

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מִשָּׁ֖םmi.Shamfrom thereH8033
נָסָ֑עוּna.Sa.'uthey set outH5265
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583
בְּנַ֥חַלbe.Na.chalin [the] wadi ofH5158
זָֽרֶד\׃Za.redZeredH2218

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

Cross references for Numbers 21:12

  • Deuteronomy 2:13-14

    Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the valley of Zared.
De 2:13,14
the brook Zered.

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Context

  • Numbers 21:11

    And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

  • Numbers 21:12

    From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

  • Numbers 21:13

    From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Numbers 21:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Partidos de allí, asentaron en la arroyada de Zared.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		De là ils partirent, et campèrent dans la vallée de Zéred.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Von dort brachen sie auf und lagerten sich am Bache Sered.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et inde moventes, venerunt ad torrentem Zared.