Numbers 33 - Introduction
_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ An account of the marches and encampments of the Israelites, from Egypt to Canaan, Numbers 33:1. A strict command to drive out all the Canaanites, Numbers 33:51.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ An account of the marches and encampments of the Israelites, from Egypt to Canaan, Numbers 33:1. A strict command to drive out all the Canaanites, Numbers 33:51.... [ Continue Reading ]
_These are the journeys of Israel_ As the peculiar providence of God remarkably appeared in the protection and miraculous preservation of the Israelites, from the time they left Egypt till they came to the borders of Canaan, so Moses was particularly commissioned to preserve a history of them for th... [ Continue Reading ]
_They departed from Rameses_ Whither they repaired, by order of Moses, from all parts of the land. _Upon their gods_ Either their princes and rulers, who are sometimes called _gods_ in Scripture; for God slew the firstborn, not only of the meaner sort, but even of their king and princes: or, their _... [ Continue Reading ]
_By the Red sea_ Not by that part of it where they had lately passed over, but more southerly, toward the Arabian desert. This station is omitted in Exodus. _The wilderness of Sin_ Where the manna first began to fall, Exodus 16:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dophkah Alush_ Neither of these stations is mentioned in Exodus, nothing remarkable, it seems, having fallen out in those places. But several remarkable things happened in Rephidim, recorded Exodus 17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The wilderness of Sinai_ Here they arrived about forty- seven days after they left Egypt, and stayed almost a year, receiving the laws contained in Exodus and Leviticus, and the first twelve Chapter s of this book. _Kibroth-hattaavah_ Where such numbers were destroyed for despising the manna, and l... [ Continue Reading ]
_They pitched in Rithmah_ A place not mentioned in Exodus, but which appears, from Numbers 12:16, to have been in the wilderness of Paran, not far from Kadesh-barnea.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ezion-gaber_ A seaport town situated on the Red sea, in the land of Edom, near Arabia Felix, Deuteronomy 2:8; 2 Chronicles 8:17. All the encampments, from Num 33:16 to this place, were wanderings backward again toward the Red sea, for thirty-eight years together. They were led to and fro, backward... [ Continue Reading ]
_Aaron went up at the commandment of the Lord, and died_ Good men's goings are ordered of the Lord, and a peculiar providence, watching over all their concerns, appoints the time and place of their death. Let us go on in the way of duty, and leave it to him to call us hence, when, and where, and how... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 there, both for the heinous crimes committed, and the severe judgments inflicted. This was their fo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants_ They were to be entirely rooted out, that the Israelites might not be seduced by their abominable idolatries, Exodus 23:33; Deuteronomy 20:16. _And destroy all their pictures_ Which seem to have been stones curiously engraven and set up for worship, Deuterono... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall divide the land by lot_ As they gradually conquered the country, they were to divide it among the tribes, according to the rules and proportions before prescribed them, Numbers 26:54.... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye will not drive out the inhabitants_ Those of them whom ye suffer to remain in the land through your cowardice, slothfulness, or friendship toward them, shall be a great plague to you, and bring sore calamities upon you; see Ezekiel 28:24. Joshua intimates the same to them before he died, Numb... [ Continue Reading ]
_I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them_ Make you their slaves; or rather, you shall flee before them, and be expelled the land, as they should have been.... [ Continue Reading ]