Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 33:49
Abel-shittim; called Shittim, Numbers 25:1, and here Abel-shittim, for the grievous mourning which there was both for the heinous crimes committed, and horrible judgments there inflicted.
Abel-shittim; called Shittim, Numbers 25:1, and here Abel-shittim, for the grievous mourning which there was both for the heinous crimes committed, and horrible judgments there inflicted.
STAT. XLII. Verse Numbers 33:49. _FROM_ BETH-JESIMOTH _EVEN UNTO_ ABEL-SHITTIM] The former of these places fell to the Reubenites, Joshua 13:15-6. The Israelites were now come to the edge of Jordan,...
This list was written out by Moses at God’s command Numbers 33:2, doubtless as a memorial of God’s providential care for His people throughout this long and trying period. Numbers 33:3. For these pla...
9. THE ENCAMPMENTS IN THE WILDERNESS CHAPTER 33:1-49 _ 1. The first stage: From Egypt to Sinai (Numbers 33:1)_ 2. The second stage: From Sinai to Kadesh (Numbers 33:16) 3. The third stage: From Ri...
THE ITINERARY OF THE ISRAELITES BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE JORDAN (P) The time covered is rather more than forty years (Numbers 33:3; Numbers 33:38), and there is probably an artificial correspondence betw...
THEY PITCHED BY JORDAN FROM BETH-JESIMOTH— A place where there was, probably, a temple to some deity; for _beth,_ in composition, often signifies a temple, as _Beth-peor, Beth-astaroth, Beth-baal Beri...
C. MT. HOR TO THE JORDAN vv. 38-49 TEXT Numbers 33:38. 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 wer...
_AND THEY REMOVED FROM DIBONGAD, AND ENCAMPED IN ALMON-DIBLATHA'IM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
33:49 Abel-Shittim, (d-10) Or 'plain of acacias.'...
THE JOURNEYINGS OF THE ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT TO THE PLAINS OF MOAB The greater part of this chapter is occupied with a list, drawn up by Moses himself (Numbers 33:2), of the Encampments of the Israeli...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 33 THE *ISRAELITES’ JOURNEY FROM THE COUNTRY CALLED EGYPT TO THE COUNTRY CALLED MOAB – NUMBERS 33:1-49 v1-2...
BETH-JESIMOTH EVEN UNTO ABEL-SHITTIM... — See Numbers 22:1, and Note, and Numbers 25:1, where Abel-shittim is mentioned as Shittim....
וַ יַּחֲנ֤וּ עַל ־הַ יַּרְדֵּן֙ מִ בֵּ֣ית הַי
THE WAY AND THE LOT Numbers 33:1; Numbers 34:1 1. THE itinerary of Numbers 33:1 is one of the passages definitely ascribed to Moses. It opens with the departure from Rameses in Egypt on the morrow af...
NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY Numbers 33:38 Aaron's death must have been deeply felt by his brother Moses. During the great crisis of Hebrew history they had been so closely associated that the wrench...
An account of the wanderings of the people in the wilderness was written by Moses at the express command of God. It appears as a bare and uninteresting list of names and yet it tells the story of a pe...
_Moabites. Here they were deluded by wicked women, chap. xxv. (Haydock) --- From these 42 stations, the Fathers take occasion to shew, how we must advance in a spiritual life. (Du Hamel)_...
I connect into one and the same point of view, the whole forty-two stages of Israel, because that one and the same general observations meet us through everyone of them. Let the Reader, however, remar...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 AND 33. There is another thing connected with this: if we have occasioned wars out of Canaan, it is also through the indispensable wars of the people of Go...
AND THEY PITCHED BY JORDAN FROM BETHJESIMOTH, [EVEN] UNTO ABELSHITTIM, IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB. Their camp reached twelve miles, as the Jews commonly say, which we may suppose was the distance of these...
_Abel-shittim_ The place where the people sinned in the matter of Peor, called simply _Shittim, Numbers 25:1_; but here _Abel-shittim_, for the grievous mourning (_Abel_ signifying mourning) which was...
1 Two and fourtie iourneyes of the Israelites. 50 The Canaanites are to be destroyed. 1 THESE are the iourneyes of the children of Israel, which went foorth out of the land of Egypt, with their armi...
And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the Plains of Moab, these being the extreme limits of their encampment. Each name in this list recalled some act of God's goodn...
FROM EGYPT TO THE PLAINS OF MOAB...
THE REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S JOURNEY FROM EGYPT (vs.1-49) Just as, at the judgment seat of Christ, there will be a review of all our history here on earth, so we find now a review of Israel's journey from...
ABELSHITTIM: Or, the plains of Shittim...
1-49 This is a brief review of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It is a memorable history. In their travels towards Canaan they were continually on the remove. Such is ou...
, NUMBERS 34:1-29. The first of these sections gives us a wonderfully minute description of the desert wanderings of the people of God. It is impossible to read it without being deeply moved by the te...
Numbers 33:49 camped H2583 (H8799) Jordan H3383 Jesimoth H1020 Grove H63 plains H6160 Moab H4124 Bethjesimoth -...
‘And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even to Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.' And finally they arrived in the plains of Moab and encamped between Beth-jeshimoth (House of the Dese...
CONTENTS: Summary of the journey from Egypt to Jordan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: It is good for believers to preserve in writing an account of the providences of God concerning them...
To understand this chapter, the map must be carefully consulted; reference must also be made by the margin to the principal places. Some of them were no more than a rock, or a well; others were small...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 33:37 These verses summarize chs. Numbers 20:1. ⇐...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 33:1__ Most of Numbers 1:1 is said to have been given to Moses by God (“The LORD spoke to Moses”;...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have a list of the places at which the Israelites encamped from their departure from Egypt unto their arrival at the Jordan (Numbers 33:1), and direc...
EXPOSITION ITINERARY OF THE WANDERINGS (Numbers 33:1). NUMBERS 33:1 THESE ARE THE JOURNEYS. The Hebrew word מַסְעֵי is rendered σταθμοί_ _by the Septuagint, which means "stages" or ...
Now in chapter thirty-three you have a summary of their exodus out of Egypt. Moses sort of wrote down all of the places where they had stopped as they made this journey from Egypt to the Promised Land...
Exodus 25:10; Exodus 25:23; Exodus 25:5; Ezekiel 25:9; Joshua 13:20;...