Numbers 33:16-49

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 33:1-49

This is a review and brief rehearsal of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It was a memorable history and well worthy to be thus abridged, and the abridgment thus preserved, to the honour of God that led them and for the encouragement of the generations that followed. Observe here, I. How the account was kept: Moses wrote their goings out, Num. 33:2. When they began this tedious march, God ordered him to keep a journal or diary, and to insert in it all the remarkable... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:16

And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah. Eight miles from the desert of Sinai; here the people lusted after flesh, and murmured, which, though given them, a pestilence came and destroyed many of them, and here they were buried, whence the place was so called, which signifies the "graves of lust", i.e. of those that lusted: no mention is made of Taberah, either because it was the same with Kibroth, or near it; or, as Aben Ezra on Deuteronomy 9:22 says,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:17

And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. Eight miles from Kibrothhattaavah, where Miriam was smote with leprosy, Numbers 12:1 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:18

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched at Rithmah. Eight miles from Hazeroth: Rethem, from whence this place seems to have had its name, is generally rendered by "juniper", 1 Kings 19:4 and the Targum of Jonathan here adds, where the juniper trees grew; and, perhaps, it is the same with the valley of Retheme, of which some travellers F5 Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 2. p. 154. thus write, "this valley", called in the Hebrew Retheme, and commonly Ritma, derives its name from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:19-29

And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez. Six miles from Rithmah, and then from Rimmon to Libnah, which was six miles also; and from thence to Rissah, which was six miles more; and from Rissah to, Kehelathah, which was the same number of miles; and from thence to Shapher, which was six miles also; and then they came to Haradah, which was four miles from thence; the next remove was to Makheloth, which was four miles and a half from the last place; then they went to Tahath,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:30-31

And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. Thirty two miles from Hashmonah. In Deuteronomy 10:6 it is called Mosera; and according to the account there, they came hither from the following place, Benejaakan; probably they went first thither from Hashmonah, and then from Mosera or Moserot, and so to Benejaakan again, going backwards and forwards, so Jarchi; the distance of the two places was twenty four miles; for the further reconciliation this; see Gill on Deuteronomy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:32-37

And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad. In the Targum Jonathan called Gudgod, as it is Gudgodah in Deuteronomy 10:7 , where the remove to this place is said to be from Mosera; it was twenty miles from Benejaaken; from thence they went to Jotbathah, twenty four miles from Horhagidgad; and from thence to Ebronah, twenty miles more; and so to Eziongeber, of which see 1 Kings 9:26 which was twenty eight miles from Ebrorah; and their next remove was to the wilderness of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:38

And Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor, at the commandment of the Lord ,.... Delivered to Moses: and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of Egypt ; not being suffered to go with them into the land of Canaan, because of his sin of unbelief at Kadesh, the last place from whence they came: in Mount Hor he died: on the first day of the fifth month ; the month Ab, answering to part of July and part of August; so that he lived but four months... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:39

And Aaron was one hundred and twenty three years old when he died in Mount Hor. He was eighty three when he stood before Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7 , and forty years he had been with Israel since, which make this number; he was three years older than Moses. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:40-44

And King Arad the Canaanite ,.... Or the king of Arad the Canaanite: which dwelt in the land of Canaan, he heard of the coming of the children of Israel ; towards the land of Canaan, in order to possess it, and he came out and fought with them, and was vanquished; see Numbers 21:1 , this was when Israel was at Mount Hor; from whence they departed to Zalmonah, twenty eight miles from the mount; and from thence to Punon, which was twenty more; and so to Oboth, which was twenty four miles... read more

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