Numbers 32:34

JPS Old Testament

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The children of Gad built Divon, and `Atrot, and `Aro`er,

King James Version
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Gad rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer,

English Standard Version
And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

New Century Version
The Gadites rebuilt the cities of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

New English Translation
The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Amplified Bible
The sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

New American Standard Bible
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

Contemporary English Version
The tribe of Gad rebuilt the towns of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Complete Jewish Bible
The descendants of Gad built Divon, ‘Atarot, ‘Aro‘er,

Darby Translation
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Gad built the cities of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Gad built Ribon and Ataroth and Adoer

Good News Translation
The tribe of Gad rebuilt the fortified towns of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Literal Translation
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The ye children of Gad buylded Dibon, Araroth, Aroer, Atroth,

American Standard Version
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Bible in Basic English
And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

King James Version (1611)
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Gad built Daebon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

English Revised Version
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer;

Berean Standard Bible
And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the sones of Gad bildiden Dibon, and Astaroth, and Aroer,

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Gad build Dihon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Update Bible Version
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

World English Bible
The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

New King James Version
And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

New Living Translation
The descendants of Gad built the towns of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

New Life Bible
Then the sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

New Revised Standard
And the Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, - and Aroer;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Revised Standard Version
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, At'aroth, Aro'er,

THE MESSAGE
The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities; they also built corrals for their animals.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

Contextual Overview

²⁸ So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. ²⁹ And Moses said unto them: 'If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; ³⁰ but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.' ³¹ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. ³² We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.' ³³ And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer; ³⁵ and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah; ³⁶ and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Dibon: Eusebius says that Dibon was a large town, near the river Arnon. Burckhardt says, that when he was about an hour's distance north of the Modjeb or Arnon, he was shown to the ne the ruins of Diban, the ancient Dibon, situated in the low ground of the Koura, or plains of Moab. Numbers 32:3, Numbers 21:20, Numbers 33:45, Numbers 33:46

Aroer: Aroer was situated, according to Eusebius, on a mountain on the north bank of the river Arnon. This is confirmed by Burckhardt, who says it is called Araayr, and is seated on the edge of the precipice, at the foot of which the river flows. Deuteronomy 2:36, Isaiah 17:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:30 - Dibon Numbers 32:24 - General Joshua 13:24 - General 1 Chronicles 5:8 - Aroer 1 Chronicles 5:11 - Gad Jeremiah 48:19 - Aroer Jeremiah 48:22 - Dibon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Gad built,.... Or rather repaired the walls and fortifications, and rebuilt houses which had been demolished in the wars with Sihon and Og; when the following places were taken by the Israelites:

Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer; the two first are mentioned in

Numbers 32:3. Aroer was a city situated on the river Arnon, and was after this in the hands of the Moabites: Jerom says q, it was showed in his day on the top of the mountain, upon the bank of the river Arnon, which flows into the Dead sea, Jeremiah 48:19.

q De loc. Heb. fol. 87. I.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Numbers 21:19. The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the Gadites, and assigned by Joshua to the Reubenites, was eventually recaptured by the Moabites, in whose hands it remained. Ataroth, i. e., “crowns” (Attarus?) was seven miles northwest of Dibon. Aroer (Arair) lay between Dibon and the Arnon.

Atroth, Shophan - , was Atroth-Shophan, i. e., Atroth, or Ataroth of Shophan, or “of the burrow;” thus distinguished from the Ataroth named in the verse preceding from which it was probably not far distant. These four cities may be styled the Dibon settlement.

Numbers 32:35

Jaazer - (compare Numbers 32:1) with the neighboring “Jogbehah” (Jebeiha), seven miles to the northeast, formed the second group.

Numbers 32:36

The third Gadite settlement lay in the valley of the Jordan, to the west of the preceding. It comprised the cities of Bethnimrah (Nimrun) and “Beth-haran” (Beit-ha-ran).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 32:34. The children of Gad built - Aroer — This was situated on the river Arnon, Deuteronomy 2:36; 2 Kings 10:33. It was formerly inhabited by the Emim, a warlike and perhaps gigantic people. They were expelled by the Moabites; the Moabites by the Amorites; and the Amorites by the Israelites. The Gadites then possessed it till the captivity of their tribe, with that of Reuben and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, by the Assyrians, 2 Kings 15:29, after which the Moabites appear to have repossessed it, as they seem to have occupied it in the days of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 48:15-20.