Numbers 33:6

_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 to Egypt, and was known by the general name of Shur....

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...

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....

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 THEY DEPARTED FROM SUCCOTH, AND PITCHED IN ETHAM,.... Which was eight miles from Succoth: WHICH IS IN THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS; of the name, see Exodus 13:20 but Dr. Shaw c makes this particular portion of the wilderness to be fifty miles from Cairo or Rameses. c Travels, p. 308....

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...

V. REVIEW OF THE ROUTE FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN (NUMBERS 33:1-49) A. EGYPT TO SINAI (Numbers 33:1-15) TEXT Numbers 33:1. 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. 2. And Moses wrote their going out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3. 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 went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptains. 4. For the Egyptians buried all their first born, which the Lord had smitten among

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 Israelites in their journey from Egypt to Canaan. In all, forty stages are enumerated. Many of the names are otherwise unknown, and in places the stages do not coincide with those mentioned in the books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These differences are, no doubt, due in part to the fact that places change their names in the course of time. At this distance it is exceedingly difficult to identify the route of march, more especially as many of the names were not names of cities or conspicuous landmarks, and therefore very liable to be forgotten. 3-15. Egypt to Sinai. This part of the journey is narrated in...