Verse 1
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin ,.... Where they had stayed some time, at least a week, as it should seem, from the gathering the manna there six days, and resting on the seventh:
after their journeys : first from the wilderness of Sin to Dophkah, and from Dophkah to Alusb, and from Alush to Rephidim, as appears from Numbers 33:12 their two stations at Dophkah and Alush are here omitted, nothing very remarkable or of any moment happening at either place:
according to the commandment ; or "mouth of the Lord" F4 על פי "super ore", Montanus, "ad os", Vatablus. , who, either with an articulate voice out of the cloud, ordered when they should march, and where they should encamp; or else this was signified by the motion or rest of the pillar of cloud or fire, which always went before them, in which the Lord was:
and pitched in Rephidim ; which was a place on the western side of Mount Sinai: according to Bunting F5 Travels, p. 82. , Dophkah was twelve miles from the wilderness of Sin, and Alush twelve miles from Dophkah, and Rephidim eight miles from Alush: and Jerom says F6 Epist. ad Fabiolam de 42 mansion. tom. 3. fol. 15. B. , according to the propriety of the Syriac language, it signifies a remission of hands: and to which the Targum of Jonathan seems to have respect, adding,"the place where their hands ceased from the precepts of the law, wherefore the fountains were dried up;'and it follows:
and there was no water for the people to drink ; being a sandy desert place.
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