CHAPTER XXXIII _The journeyings of the Israelites written out by Moses_, _according to the commandment of the Lord_, 1, 2. _They depart from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first_ _month, on the day after the passover, the first-born of the_ _Egyptians having been slain_, 3, 4. _Their_ for... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 33:2. _AND MOSES WROTE THEIR GOINGS OUT ACCORDING TO THEIR_ _JOURNEYS_] We may consider the whole book of Numbers as a _diary_, and indeed the first _book of travels_ ever published. Dr. Shaw, Dr. Pococke, and several others, have endeavoured to mark out the route of the Israelites, t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 33:3. _FROM RAMESES_] This appears to have been the metropolis of the land of Goshen, and the place of rendezvous whence the whole Israelitish nation set out on their journey to the promised land; and is supposed to be the same as _Cairo_. Exodus 12:37, Exodus 12:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
HERE FOLLOW THE FORTY-TWO STATIONS STATION I. Verse Numbers 33:5. _AND PITCHED IN_ SUCCOTH.] This name signifies _booths_ or _tents_, and probably refers to no _town_ or _village_, but simply designates the _place_ where they pitched their tents for the first time after their departure from _Rames... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. II. Verse Numbers 33:6. ETHAM, _WHICH_ IS _IN THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS._] This place is not well known; Dr. Shaw supposes it to have been _one_ mile from _Cairo_. Calmet thinks it is the city of _Buthum_ mentioned by Herodotus, which he places in Arabia, on the frontiers of Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. III. Verse Numbers 33:7. PI-HAHIROTH] See on Exodus 14:1; Exodus 14:2. _Baal-zephon_ Calmet supposes to be the _Clysma_ of the Greeks, and the _Kolzum_ of the Arabians.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. IV. Verse Numbers 33:8. _AND WENT THREE DAYS' JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS OF_ _ETHAM_] Called the wilderness of _Shur_, Exodus 15:22. _AND PITCHED IN_ MARAH.] Dr. Shaw supposes this place to be at _Sedur_, over against the valley of _Baideah_, on the opposite side of the Red Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. V. Verse Numbers 33:9. _AND CAME UNTO_ ELIM] A place on the skirts of the deserts of _Sin_, two leagues from _Tor_, and nearly thirty from _Corondel_, a large bay on the east side of the Red Sea. Dr. Shaw, when he visited this place, found but _nine_ of the _twelve_ wells mentioned in the tex... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. VI. Verse Numbers 33:10. _ENCAMPED BY THE_ RED SEA.] It is difficult to assign the _place_ of this encampment, as the Israelites were now on their way to _Mount Sinai_, which lay considerably to the east of _Elim_, and consequently farther from the sea than the former station. It might be ca... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. VII. Verse Numbers 33:11. _THE WILDERNESS OF_ SIN.] This lies between _Elim_ and _Mount Sinai_. Dr. Shaw and his companions traversed these plains in nine hours.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. VIII. Verse Numbers 33:12. DOPHKAH.] This place is not mentioned in Exodus and its situation is not known.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. IX. Verse Numbers 33:13. ALUSH.] Neither is this mentioned in Exodus and its situation is equally unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. X. Verse Numbers 33:14. REPHIDIM.] Remarkable for the rebellion of the Israelites against Moses, because of the want of water, Exodus 17:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XI. Verse Numbers 33:15. _THE_ WILDERNESS _OF_ SINAI.] Somewhere northward of Mount Sinai, on the straight road to the promised land, to which they now directed their course.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XII. Verse Numbers 33:16. KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH.] No city, village, c., but a _place_ in the open desert, which had its name from the plague that fell upon the Israelites, through their murmuring against God, and their inordinate desire of flesh. Numbers 6:1 c. But it appears that the Israelites... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XIII. Verse Numbers 33:17. HAZEROTH.] This place Dr. Shaw computes to have been about thirty miles distant from Mount Sinai.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XIV. Verse Numbers 33:18. RITHMAH.] This place lay somewhere in the wilderness of _Paran_, through which the Israelites were now passing. See Numbers 13:1; Numbers 13:3. The name signifies the juniper tree; and the place probably had its name from the great number of those trees growing in th... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XV. Verse Numbers 33:19. RIMMON-PAREZ.] Unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XVI. Verse Numbers 33:20. LIBNAH.] The situation of this place is uncertain. A city of this name is mentioned Joshua 10:29, as situated between Kadesh-barnea and Gaza.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XVII. Verse Numbers 33:21. RISSAH.] A place mentioned nowhere else in the sacred writings. Its situation utterly uncertain.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XVIII. Verse Numbers 33:22. KEHELATHAH.] Utterly unknown; though some conjecture that it might have been the place called Keilah, 1 Samuel 23:1, c., but this is unlikely.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XIX. Verse Numbers 33:23. SHAPHER.] Where this mountain lay cannot be determined.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XX. Verse Numbers 33:24. HARADAH.] Unknown, Calmet supposes that it may be the place called _Bered_, Genesis 16:14, which was in the vicinity of _Kadesh_.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXI. Verse Numbers 33:25. MAKHELOTH.] A name found nowhere else in Scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXII. Verse Numbers 33:26. TAHATH.] Unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXIII. Verse Numbers 33:27. TARAH.] Also unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXIV. Verse Numbers 33:28. MITHCAH.] Calmet conjectures that this may be _Mocha_, a city in Arabia Petraea.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXV. Verse Numbers 33:29. HASHMONAH.] Supposed by some to be the same as _Azmon_, Numbers 34:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXVI. Verse Numbers 33:30. MOSEROTH.] Situation unknown. In Deuteronomy 10:6 it is said that the Israelites took their journey from Beeroth, the wells of the children of _Jaakan_, to Mosera, and there Aaron died. If so, Mosera, Moseroth, and Hor, must be different names of the same place; or... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXVII. Verse Numbers 33:31. BENE-JAAKAN.] Unknown. The _sons of Jaakan_. _See the preceding verse, Clarke "_Numbers 33:30_"_.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXVIII. Verse Numbers 33:32. HOR-HAGIDGAD.] The _hole_ or _pit of Gidgad_. Unknown. It was a place perhaps remarkable for some vast pit or cavern, from which it took its name.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXIX. Verse Numbers 33:33. JOTRATHAH.] Situation unknown. It is said in Deuteronomy 10:7 to be a _land of rivers of waters_.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXX. Verse Numbers 33:34. EBRONAH.] Nowhere else mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXI. Verse Numbers 33:35. EZION-GABER.] Dr. Shaw places this port on the western coast of the _Elantic gulf_ of the Red Sea. It is now called _Meenah el Dsahab_, or the _golden port_, by the Arabs; because it was from this place that Solomon sent his ships for gold to Ophir, 1 Kings 9:26. He... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXII. Verse Numbers 33:36. ZIN, _WHICH_ IS KADESH.] A place remarkable for the death of Miriam the prophetess, and bringing water out of the rock. As this place was on the borders of _Edom_, the Israelites, being denied permission to pass through their land, which lay on the direct road to t... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXIII. Verse 37. HOR.] Famous for the death of Aaron. See on Numbers 20:25-4. Perhaps Moseroth or Mosera, Numbers 33:30, was a village near this mountain. Numbers 33:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXIV. Verse 41. ZALMONAH.] Probably in the neighborhood of the land of Edom. As צלם _tselem_ signifies an _image_, this place probably had its name from the brazen serpent set up by Moses. Numbers 21:9, c. From the same root the word _telesm_, corruptly called _talisman_, which signifies a c... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXV. Verse 42. PUNON.] A place in _Idumea_. Nowhere else mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXVI. Verse 43. OBOTH.] Mentioned before, Numbers 21:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXVII. Verse 44. IJE-ABARIM.] The _heaps of Abarim_. See Numbers 21:11. Situation uncertain. It is called _Iim_ in the following verse. As the word signifies heaps or protuberances, it probably means tumuil or small hills near some of the _fords_ of Jordan.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXVIII. Verse 45. DIBON-GAD.] Supposed to be the same as _Dibon_, Numbers 32:34, and to be situated on the brook _Arnon_.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XXXIX. Verse 46. ALMON-DIBLATHAIM.] Situation not known. It belonged to the Moabites in the time of the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah 48:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XL. Verse 47. _MOUNTAINS OF_ ABARIM, _BEFORE_ NEBO.] The mountain on which Moses died. They came to this place after the overthrow of the _Amorites_. See Numbers 21:34-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAT. XLI. Verse Numbers 33:48. _THE_ PLAINS _OF_ MOAB.] This was the scene of the transactions between _Balaam_ and _Balak_; see Numbers 23, Numbers 24, Numbers 25... [ Continue Reading ]
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, over against Jericho, where they afterwards passed. For farther information on the subject of these... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 33:52. _YE SHALL - DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES_] משכיתם _maskiyotham_, from שחה _sachah_, to be _like_, or _resemble_, either _pictures, carved_ work, or _embroidery_, as far as these things were employed to exhibit the abominations of idolatry. _Molten images_ צלמי מסכתם tsalmey massec... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 33:55. SHALL BE _PRICKS IN YOUR EYES_] Under these metaphors, the continual mischief that should be done to them, both in soul and body, by these idolaters, is set forth in a very expressive manner. What can be more vexatious than a continual goading of each side, so that the attempt t... [ Continue Reading ]