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They left Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Numbers 33:46 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
  • KJV And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim.
  • BSB They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
  • NKJV They moved from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
  • NASB They journeyed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

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Quick answer

Israel travels from Dibon Gad and camps at Almon Diblathaim. It is a further stage as the nation moves through Moabite territory.

Overview

This lesser-known stop continues the precise itinerary leading to the plains of Moab. The thoroughness of the list underscores that Scripture treats the whole journey as worthy of remembrance. God's people are taught to recall the full path by which the Lord brought them, the hard stretches as well as the destination.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 5

  • Ezek 6:14I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they will know that I am Yahweh. ’”
  • Num 32:34The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
  • Jer 48:22and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,
  • Jer 48:18“You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
  • Isa 15:2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

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Christ at the center

In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.

How Numbers 33:46 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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