Numbers 33:18
in Numbers 33They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
KJV
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseRithmah - This place lay somewhere in the wilderness of Paran, through which the Israelites were now passing. See Num 13:1, Num 13:3. The name signifies the juniper tree; and the place probably had its name from the great number of those trees growing in that district. Stat. 15.
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 Awakening1 voice
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched at Rithmah.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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
4 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 |
| מֵחֲצֵרֹ֑ת | mechatzerot | from Hazeroth | H2698 → | 6 times |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּרִתְמָֽה׃ | beritmah | at Rithmah | H7575 → |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵחֲצֵרֹ֑תfrom Hazeroth
mechatzerotH2698 →6 times
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּרִתְמָֽה׃at Rithmah
beritmahH7575 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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 12:16After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
it leads to
- Numbers 11:35
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
- Numbers 10:12
and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 13:3
So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
- Genesis 21:21
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 25:1
When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 11:35
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 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.