And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;
And they removed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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Halus [Alush] means "toils." Nor should you be surprised if toils follow health. For the soul acquires health from the Lord in order to accept toils with delight and not unwillingly.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12, 253patristic
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. The strong fort, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it; this was twelve miles from Dophkah: according to the Jewish chronology (d), this Alush is the wilderness of Sin, where the Israelites came on the fifteenth day of the seventh month from their going out of Egypt; and they say, that in Alush the sabbath was given them, and that there they kept the first sabbath, as it is said: and the people rested on the seventh day, Exo 16:30. (d) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rephidim--These three stations, in the great valleys of El Sheikh and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (Ex 17:6) was in Horeb, the burnt region--a generic name for a hot, mountainous country. [See on Ex 17:1.]
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
