THEOSISLopuchin A.P.
The initial voice (reflecting on Israel's ultimate triumph): "We struck them down with arrows, demolished Heshbon all the way to Dibon! We left ruin as far as Nophah, and we consumed them with fire extending to Medeba."
Numbers 21:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.
וַנִּירָ֛ם אָבַ֥ד חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן עַד־דִּיב֑וֹן וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים עַד־נֹ֔פַח אֲשֶׁ֖רׄ עַד־מֵֽידְבָֽא׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 15:2The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
- Jer 48:18Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks.
- Jer 48:22And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,
- Num 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Num 32:34And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
- Josh 13:17And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,
- Gen 49:23But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
- Ps 18 (17):14