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The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:4
Buried all their first-born, which the Lord had smitten among them. Literally, "were burying those whom the Lord had smitten among them, viz; all the first-born." The fact that the Egyptians were so universally employed…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:6
Etham. See on Exodus 13:20.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:7
Pi-hahiroth. Hebrew, "Hahi-roth," without the prefix. See on Exodus 14:2.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:8
In the wilderness of Etham. This is called the wilderness of Shur in Exodus 15:22, nor is it easy to explain the occurrence of the name Etham in this connection, for the Etham mentioned in Exodus 15:6 lay on the other s…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:9
Elim. See on Exodus 15:27.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:10
Encamped by the Red Sea. This encampment, like those at Dophkah and at Alush (Numbers 33:13), is not mentioned in the narrative of Exodus. The phraseology, however, used in Exodus 16:1; Exodus 17:1 leaves abundant room…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:15
The wilderness of Sinai. See on Exodus 19:1.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:17
Kibroth-hattaavah … Hazeroth. See on Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:18
Rithmah. Comparing this verso with Numbers 12:16 and Numbers 13:26, it would appear as if Rithmah were the station "in the wilderness of Paran" from which the spies went up, and to which they returned—a station subseque…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:19
Rimmon-parez. The latter part of the name is the same as parats or perets, which commonly signifies a breaking out of Divine anger. This place may possibly have been the scene of the events related in Numbers 16:1-50, N…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:20
Libnah. Hebrew לִבְנָה ("whiteness") may perhaps be the same as the Laban ( לָבָן, "white") mentioned in Deuteronomy 1:1. So many places, however, in that region are distinguished by the dazzling whiteness of their lime…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:30
Hashmonah. This is possibly the Heshmon of Joshua 15:27, since this was one of the "uttermost cities … toward the coast of Edom, southward." The name, however ("fruitfulness"), was probably common on the edge of the des…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:31
Bene-Jaakan. The full name is given in Deuteronomy 10:6 as Beeroth-beni-Jaakan, "the wells of the children of Jaakan." Jaakan, or Akan, was a grandson of Seir, the legendary tribe father of the Horites of Mount Seir (Ge…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:32
Hor-ha-gidgad. The MSS. and Versions are divided between Chor. (:cave.") and Her ("summit," or "mountain"). Gid-gad is no doubt the Gudgodah of Deuteronomy 10:7.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:33
Jotbathah. The meaning of this name, which is apparently "excellent," is explained by the note in Deuteronomy 10:7 "Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters." It would be difficult to find such a land now in the neighbourhoo…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:34
Ebronah, or "Abronah," a "beach," or "passage," called "the Fords" by the Targum of Palestine. It is conjectured that it lay below Ezion-geber, just opposite to Elath, with which place it may have been connected by a fo…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:35
Ezion-gaber, or rather "Etsion-geber," the "giant's backbone." This can hardly be other than the place mentioned in 1 Kings 9:26; 2 Chronicles 8:17 as the harbour of King Solomon's merchant navy. At this later date it w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:36
The wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. See on Numbers 20:1.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:37
Mount Hor. See on Numbers 20:22.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:38
In the fortieth year … in the first day of the fifth month. This is the only place where the date of Aaron's death is given. It is in strict accordance with the Divine intimation that Israel was to wander forty years in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:39
An hundred and twenty and three years old. He had been eighty-three years old when he first stood before Pharaoh, forty years before (Exodus 7:7).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:40
And king Arad … heard of the coming. See on Numbers 21:1. The introduction of this notice, for which there seems no motive, and which has no assignable connection with the context, is extremely perplexing. It is not sim…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:41
Zalmonah. This place is not elsewhere mentioned, and cannot be identified. Either this or Punon may be the encampment where the brazen serpent was set up; according to the Targum of Palestine it was the latter.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 33:42
Punon. Perhaps connected with the Pinon of Genesis 36:41. The Septuagint has φινώ, and it is identified by Eusebius and Jerome with Phaeno, a place between Petra and Zoar where convicts were sent to labour in the mines…