Numbers 22:1

And the children of Israel set forward,.... From the country of Bashan, where we read of them last, after they had conquered Og the king of it, and also Sihon king of the Amorites, and settled some of…

The plains - Hebrew ערבה ‛ărābâh; the word is the plural of that which is used to denote the whole depressed tract along the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and onward, where it is still called the Arabah…

The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued…

Num 22:1. The verse appears to be the continuation of P's itinerary in Num 21:10-11; cf. Num 33:48.

the steppes of Moab A term, peculiar to P, which denotes the open plain, immediately to the north of…