Nahaliel

Nahaliel appears once, as one of the marching stations of Israel on the approach to the plains of Moab.

A Stop on the Itinerary

The wilderness journey is narrated as a sequence of named camps. Nahaliel sits between Mattanah and Bamoth: "and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth" (Nu 21:19). The fuller frame places it within the stretch from "the well, which the princes dug" out to the heights overlooking the desert: "And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah; and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert" (Nu 21:18-20).