Numbers 33:16
in Numbers 33They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.
KJV
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
6 notes on this verseFrom there they come to the Tombs of Lust [Kibroth-hattavah]. What are the Tombs of Lust? Doubtless it is where lusts are buried and covered over, where all desire is quenched and the flesh no longer lusts against the spirit, since it has been put to death by the death of Christ.
This site's exposition
removed from the desert of Sinai
on Numbers 33:16-20
Two of these camps carry their own stories, the graves of the people that lusted at Kibroth-hattaavah in Numbers 11:34 and the seven days Miriam was shut out of the camp at Hazeroth in Numbers 12:14-15. The first of those names was given by the event itself. After Hazeroth the record goes quiet, and Rithmah, Rimmon-parez and Libnah are given with no word of what happened at them. Nothing in the list marks the sentence passed at Kadesh, which decided the rest of the book.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
1 ), is here called Abel-shittim. Abel signifies mourning (as Gen. l. 11 ), and probably this place was so called from the mourning of the good people of Israel on account of that sin and of God's wrath against them for it.
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And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Kibroth-hattaavah - No city, village, etc., 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. See on Numbers 11 (note). But it appears that the Israelites had traveled three days’ journey in order to reach this place, Num 10:33, and commentators suppose there must have been other stations which are not laid down here, probably because the places were not remarkable. Stat. 13.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (De 1:2), it is evident that the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another and totally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinai in the second month (Nu 1:11;
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The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֖וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר | mimidbar | from [the] wilderness of | H4057 → | 270 times |
| סִינָ֑י | sinai | Sinai | H5514 → | 35 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּקִבְרֹ֥ת | bekivrot | at Kibroth | H6914 → | 10 times |
| הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה׃ | hataavah | Hattaavah | H6914 → | 10 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מִמִּדְבַּ֣רfrom [the] wilderness of
mimidbarH4057 →270 times
סִינָ֑יSinai
sinaiH5514 →35 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּקִבְרֹ֥תat Kibroth
bekivrotH6914 →10 times
הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה׃Hattaavah
hataavahH6914 →10 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:6
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
- Psalms 106:14
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- Psalms 78:18–20
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Leviticus 24:10–11
Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6
Through
Deuteronomy 1:6The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
it leads to
- Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 10:11–13
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
- Exodus 3:1
Through
Numbers 11:34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:22
You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
- Deuteronomy 9:22
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.