Numbers 33:17
in Numbers 33They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
KJV
And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. Eight miles from Kibrothhattaavah, where Miriam was smote with leprosy, Num 12:1.
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 Church Fathers1 voice
Next they come to Aseroth [Hazeroth]. This means "perfect halls" or "blessedness."Consider quite carefully, each of you wanderers, what the order of progress is. After you have been buried and have handed over the lusts of the flesh to death, you will come to the spacious dignity of halls, you will come to blessedness. For blessed is the soul that is no longer driven by any vices of the flesh.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
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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Hazeroth - This place Dr. Shaw computes to have been about thirty miles distant from Mount Sinai. Stat. 14.
The words behind it
5 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 |
| מִקִּבְרֹ֣ת | mikivrot | from Kibroth | H6914 → | 10 times |
| הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑ה | hataavah | Hattaavah | H6914 → | 10 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בַּחֲצֵרֹֽת׃ | bachatzerot | at Hazeroth | H2698 → | 6 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מִקִּבְרֹ֣תfrom Kibroth
mikivrotH6914 →10 times
הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑הHattaavah
hataavahH6914 →10 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בַּחֲצֵרֹֽת׃at Hazeroth
bachatzerotH2698 →6 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
2 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 11:35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
it leads to
- Numbers 12:16
After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- Numbers 12:16
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.