Numbers 33:39

_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....

39._And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old. _It is not without reason that the great age of Aaron is expressly stated, inasmuch as his life had been prolonged to an unusual period, for the good of the people. At the age of an hundred he had already exceeded the ordinary extent of life; whereas, by God’s extraordinary blessing, he survived until the people were about to pass into the promised land. Hence their ingratitude was the more base in not acknowledging this paternal _care _of God, since it was for their advantage that He preserved so long the minister of His grace....

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 our state in this world; we have here no continuing city, and all our removes in this world are but from one part a desert to another. They were led to and fro, forward and backward, yet were all the while under the direction of the pillar of cloud and fire. God led them about, yet led them the right way. The way God takes in bringing his people to himself is always the best way, though it does not always seem to us the nearest way. Former events are mentioned. Thus we ought to keep in mind the providences of God concerning us and families, us and our land, and the many instances of that Divine care which has led us, and fed us, and kept us all our days hitherto. Few periods of our lives can b...

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 places, see the marginal reference. Numbers 33:8 PI-HAHIROTH - Hebrew “Hahiroth,” but perhaps only by an error of transcription. However, the omitted “pi” is only a common Egyptian prefix. WILDERNESS OF ETHAM - i. e., that part of the great wilderness of Shur which adjoined Etham; compare Exodus 15:22

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 "stations." It is, however, quite rightly translated "journeys," for it is the act of setting out and marching from such a place to such another which the word properly denotes (cf. Genesis 13:3; Deuteronomy 10:11). Numbers 33:2

AND AARON WAS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED IN MOUNT HOR. He was eighty three when he stood before Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7, and forty years he had been with Israel since, which make this number; he was three years older than Moses....

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 Rithmah to Kadesh-- The 38 years wandering (Numbers 33:18) 4. The fourth stage: From Kadesh to the plain of Moab-- The fortieth year (Numbers 33:37) The chapter shows most blessedly how the eye of God follows the journeys and wanderings of His people and how He keeps record of them. Nothing escapes His watchful eye. And He leads His people in spite of their failures to the promised goal. Noti

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 between the number of the years and the number of the stations, which, excluding the terminus (the plain of Moab), amount to Numbers 33:40. The names in Numbers 33:5 designate stations on the march from Egypt to Sinai; those in Numbers 33:16 places visited during the forty years-' wanderings; and those in...

DIED. Compare Numbers 20:24; Numbers 20:26, &c, born 1575 B.C. MOUNT HOR. Compare Numbers 21:4....

Aaron's age is calculated by adding forty years to his age at the Exodus (Exodus 7:7)....