_THESE ARE THE JOURNEYS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WENT FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH THEIR ARMIES UNDER THE HAND OF MOSES AND AARON._ These are the journeys. This chapter may be said to form the winding-up of the history of the travels of the Israelites through the wilderness; because... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES WROTE THEIR GOINGS OUT ACCORDING TO THEIR JOURNEYS BY THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: AND THESE ARE THEIR JOURNEYS ACCORDING TO THEIR GOINGS OUT._ Moses wrote ... by the commandment of the Lord - namely, in the book (see the notes at Exodus 17:14; Exodus 24:4). The wisdom of this divine ord... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM RAMESES IN THE FIRST MONTH, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH; ON THE MORROW AFTER THE PASSOVER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT OUT WITH AN HIGH HAND IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE EGYPTIANS._ Rameses - generally identified with Heroopolis, now the modern Abu-Keisheid (see the no... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE EGYPTIANS BURIED ALL THEIR FIRSTBORN, WHICH THE LORD HAD SMITTEN AMONG THEM: UPON THEIR GODS ALSO THE LORD EXECUTED JUDGMENTS._ Upon their gods - used either according to Scripture phraseology, to denote their rulers, the first-born of the king and his princes, or the idolatrous objects of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REMOVED FROM RAMESES, AND PITCHED IN SUCCOTH._ Pitched in Succoth - i:e., booths; a place of no note except as a temporary halting-place, at Birket-el-Hadji (the Pilgrim's Pool), (Calmet: see the note at Exodus 12:37).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM SUCCOTH, AND PITCHED IN ETHAM, WHICH IS IN THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS._ Etham - the strip of desert extending 'along the coast up to the tongue of land Abu Zelime' (Lepsius, 'Letters'), constituting the edge or border of all that part of Arabia-Petraea which lay contiguous t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM ETHAM, AND TURNED AGAIN UNTO PIHAHIROTH, WHICH IS BEFORE BAALZEPHON: AND THEY PITCHED BEFORE MIGDOL._ Pi-hahiroth ... Baal-zephon ... Migdol - (see the notes at Exodus 14:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM BEFORE PIHAHIROTH, AND PASSED THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE SEA INTO THE WILDERNESS, AND WENT THREE DAYS' JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS OF ETHAM, AND PITCHED IN MARAH._ Marah - thought to be Ain Howarah, both from its position and the time (three days) it would take them with their c... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM MARAH, AND CAME UNTO ELIM: AND IN ELIM WERE TWELVE FOUNTAINS OF WATER, AND THREESCORE AND TEN PALM TREES; AND THEY PITCHED THERE._ Elim - supposed to be Wady Ghurundel (see the note at Exodus 15:27).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM ELIM, AND ENCAMPED BY THE RED SEA._ Encamped by the Red sea. This station is omitted in the historical itinerary of Exodus. The distance between the Elim station and the sea is only one mile and a-half; so that it could with propriety be left unnoticed in the principal accoun... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE RED SEA, AND ENCAMPED IN THE WILDERNESS OF SIN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THEIR JOURNEY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF SIN, AND ENCAMPED IN DOPHKAH._ Dophkah ... Alush ... Rephidim. These three stations, in the great valleys of Wady Mukatteb, El Sheikh, and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (Exodus 16:6) was in Horeb, th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM REPHIDIM, AND PITCHED IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI._ Wilderness of Sinai - the Wady Er Raheh.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE DESERT OF SINAI, AND PITCHED AT KIBROTH-HATTA'AVAH._ KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH - the graves of lust (see the notes at Numbers 9:4). The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, led down Wady Sheikh, then, crossing Jebel-et-Tyh, which intersected the peninsula, they descended... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AARON THE PRIEST WENT UP INTO MOUNT HOR AT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, AND DIED THERE, IN THE FORTIETH YEAR AFTER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM ZALMONAH, AND PITCHED IN PUNON._ Punon - in the rocky ravines of Mount Hor, and famous for the mines and quarries in its vicinity, as well as for its fruit-trees-now Tafyle, on the border of Edom (Osborn identifies it with the Phenne of the Greek itineraries, 'Monumental His... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM PUNON, AND PITCHED IN OBOTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM OBOTH, AND PITCHED IN IJEABARIM, IN THE BORDER OF MOAB._ Ije-abarim - a ridge of rugged hills, northwest of the Arnon-the part called Nebo was one of its highest peaks-opposite Jericho (see the note at Deuteronomy 10:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM IIM, AND PITCHED IN DIBONGAD._ Iim. 'It is more in accordance with the usage of the sacred writer throughout this chapter to repeat the full name Ije-abarim in Numbers 33:45 as in Numbers 33:44. This is the reading of four MSS. and the Vulgate' ('Negeb,' p. 156). There is a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM DIBONGAD, AND ENCAMPED IN ALMON-DIBLATHA'IM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN YE SHALL DRIVE OUT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM BEFORE YOU, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES, AND QUITE PLUCK DOWN ALL THEIR HIGH PLACES:_ Ye shall drive out - not, however, by expulsion, but extermination (Deuteronomy 7:1). DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL DISPOSSESS THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, AND DWELL THEREIN: FOR I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE LAND TO POSSESS IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL DIVIDE THE LAND BY LOT FOR AN INHERITANCE AMONG YOUR FAMILIES: AND TO THE MORE YE SHALL GIVE THE MORE INHERITANCE, AND TO THE FEWER YE SHALL GIVE THE LESS INHERITANCE: EVERY MAN'S INHERITANCE SHALL BE IN THE PLACE WHERE HIS LOT FALLETH; ACCORDING TO THE TRIBES OF YOUR FATHERS YE SHALL... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF YE WILL NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM BEFORE YOU; THEN IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT THOSE WHICH YE LET REMAIN OF THEM SHALL BE PRICKS IN YOUR EYES, AND THORNS IN YOUR SIDES, AND SHALL VEX YOU IN THE LAND WHEREIN YE DWELL._ But if ye will not drive. No associations were to be... [ Continue Reading ]