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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 32:38

Numbers 32:38. (Their names being changed)— The Israelites might judge it proper to change the names of these places, in order to abolish all the footsteps of idolatry in the country; though we find them still called by their ancient names, Joshua 13:17. Ezekiel 25:9 and Isaiah 15; Isaiah 16. Houbigant renders the latter clause of this verse, and they gave their own names to the cities which they built. It was the custom of the founders or rebuilders of towns to give their own names to those towns which they founded or rebuilt.

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See also Numbers 32:38 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 32:38. _AND NEBO - THEIR NAMES BEING CHANGED_] That is, Those who conquered the cities called them after their own names. Thus the city _Kenath_, being conquered by _Nobah_, was called a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The Reubenites established themselves more compactly than the Gadites. Elcalch (el-’Al) a mile to the northeast; Nebo (Nebbeh) probably three miles to the southwest; Baal-meon (Main) nearly two miles...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    8. THE TRIBES OF REUBEN, GAD, HALF-MANASSEH AND THEIR PORTION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The petition of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 32:1)_ 2. The rebuke by Moses (Numbers 32:6) 3. Their answer (Numbers 32:16)

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A LIST OF TOWNS BUILT ( OR REBUILT) BY GAD AND REUBEN. The towns here assigned to Reuben form a group within the territory of Gad, for the most northerly and the most southerly of the places named are...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _their names being changed_ The parenthesis is strange, for the change of names by the Manassites is related immediately afterwards. Some think that it is a marginal note to the reader that the names...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Many of these towns have been identified with some probability. But the list represents a tradition very different from that in Joshua 13:15-28 (P), and must be ultimately derived from an earlier sour...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. CITIES BUILT OR TAKEN IN THE LAND vv. 34-42 TEXT Numbers 32:34. And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 35. And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, 36. And Beth-nimrah,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NEBO, AND BAALMEON, (THEIR NAMES BEING CHANGED,) AND SHIBMAH: AND GAVE OTHER NAMES UNTO THE CITIES WHICH THEY BUILDED._ Nebo - now Neba, near the mountain of that name (cf. 1 Chronicles 5:8; 1 C...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALLOTMENT OF TERRITORY TO THE TRIBES OF GAD AND REUBEN AND THE HALFTRIBE OF MANASSEH 1-5. The tribes of Reuben and Gad request that the land of Gilead lying on the E. side of the Jordan be assigned to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 32 THE LAND EAST OF THE JORDAN RIVER – NUMBERS 32:1-42 V1 Reuben’s *tribe and Gad’s *tribe owned many cows

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־נְבֹ֞ו וְ אֶת ־בַּ֧עַל מְעֹ֛ון מֽוּסַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. SETTLEMENT Numbers 32:1 The request of the men of Reuben and Gad that they should be allowed to settle on the eastern side of Jordan in the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was at first refuse...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WARNING AGAINST FORSAKING THEIR BRETHREN Numbers 32:20 These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religio...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have here the record of what without doubt was a wrong committed by two and a half tribes, of Moses' failure in judgment, and, consequently, of a grave mistake. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of M...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Nabo. Probably the same as Nebo and Nobe. --- Baalmeon. This city had a variety of names, ver. 3, 35. Those who rebuilt these cities gave them their own names, ver. 42. (Hebrew Targum of Jerusalem) Y...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The reason of the change of names was most probably to observe that precept, that the children of Israel should not make mention of the names of the gods of the heathen about them; and their cities we...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 AND 33. There is another thing connected with this: if we have occasioned wars out of Canaan, it is also through the indispensable wars of the people of Go...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND NEBO, AND BAALMEON, (THEIR NAMES BEING CHANGED,).... For Nebo was the name of an idol, after which perhaps the city was called: Baalmeon signifies "Baal's habitation", and where it is highly proba...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. Ver. 38. _Their names being changed._] Out of detestation of those idols, Ba...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Their names being changed_ Conquerors of places have been wont to change their names. But as the Israelites were forbidden to mention the names of _other gods_, and as these places, it seems had thei...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Reubenites and Gadites sue for their inheritance on that side Iorden. 6 Moses reproueth them. 16 They offer him conditions to his content. 33 Moses assigneth them the land. 39 They conquere...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah; and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. Some of these cities have been located more or less exactly, while the locat...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PETITION GRANTED WITH THE PROPOSED CONDITION...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROPOSAL OF COMPROMISE (vs.1-15) The children of Israel being now east of the Jordan River, the land there appealed to the tribes of Reuben and Gad particularly because they had great possessions o...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GAVE OTHER NAMES UNTO THE CITIES: _ Heb._ they called by names the names of the cities...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    28-42 Concerning the settlement of these tribes, observe, that they built the cities, that is, repaired them. They changed the names of them; probably they were idolatrous, therefore they should be f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NEBO; of which city see DEUTERONOMY 34:1 JEREMIAH 48:1. THEIR NAMES BEING CHANGED; either because conquerors of places use to do so; or because _the names of other gods_ (which Nebo and Baal-meon unqu...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The fact recorded in this chapter has given rise to considerable discussion. Various have been the opinions advanced in reference to the conduct of the two tribes and a half. Were they right or were t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 32:38 Nebo H5015 Meon H1186 names H8034 changed H4142 (H8716)) Shibmah H7643 gave H7121 (H8799) names...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAND OF THE AMORITES IN TRANSJORDAN IS GIVEN TO THE TWO TRIBES AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH (NUMBERS 32:33). The fulfilment of the treaty was now confirmed with the additional information that U...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The choice of the world-borderers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Would we choose our portion aright we must look above the things which are seen otherwise we will be g...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 32:12. _Save Caleb the Kenezite._ Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called the father of Moses' wife, and he was evidently her g...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Their names being changed _ CHANGES OF NAME Many persons live in names. This is fatal to the grasp of complete truth and relation. The poet asks, “What’s in a name?” The name of a friend may be nec...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 32:1__ The conquest of the kings of Transjordan, Sihon and Og, was described in ch. Numbers 21:1. The high hills (2,500 feet [762 m]) of Transjordan were good for raising ca

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the account of the allotment of the territory conquered by Israel on the east of the Jordan to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN (Numbers 32:1). NUMBERS 32:1 THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD. Reuben and

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter thirty-two, we find that Reuben, that is the tribe of Reuben, and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh came to Moses and they said, "Hey, we are quite content to stay in t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 23:13; Genesis 26:18; Isaiah 46:1; Joshua 23:7; Numbers 22:41;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Their names changed — Either because conquerers of places used to do so: or because the names of other Gods (which Nebo and Baal — meon unquestionably were) were not to be mentioned, Exodus 23:13....

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