Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 10:31
Thou mayest be to us instead of eyes - But what need had they of Hobab, when they had the pillar and fire continually to point out their way? Answer: The cloud directed their general journeys, but not their particular excursions. Parties took several journeys while the grand army lay still. (See Numbers 13, 20, 31, 32, etc). They therefore needed such a person as Hobab, who was well acquainted with the desert, to direct these particular excursions; to point them out watering places, and... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 10:30
I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred - From the strong expostulations in Numbers 10:31 ; and Numbers 10:32 , and from Judges 1:16 ; Judges 4:11 , and 1 Samuel 15:6 , it is likely that Hobab changed his mind; or that, if he did go back to Midian, he returned again to Israel, as the above scriptures show that his posterity dwelt among the Israelites in Canaan. Reader, after having been almost persuaded to become a Christian, to take Christ, his cross,... read more