Numbers 33:21
in Numbers 33They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
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ASV
And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
KJV
And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
and pitched at Rissah
on Numbers 33:21-29
Nine camps in nine verses with nothing but names attached. Most cannot be located now, and Adam Clarke marks Kehelathah utterly unknown while giving the distances the older writers assigned to the rest. These stations belong to the years under the sentence of chapter 14, which Deuteronomy 2:14 counts at thirty and eight from Kadesh-barnea to the brook Zered. The record keeps the movements of a generation whose story the narrative had stopped telling.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
The next stage takes place in Ressa [Rissah], which could be put into our words as "visible or praiseworthy temptation." Why is it that however great the progress made by the soul nonetheless temptations are not taken away from it? Here it becomes clear that temptations are brought to it as a kind of protection and defense. For just as meat, if it is not sprinkled with salt, no matter how great and special it is, becomes rotten, so also the soul, unless it is somehow salted with constant temptations, immediately becomes feeble and soft.
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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Bissah - A place mentioned nowhere else in the sacred writings. Its situation utterly uncertain. Stat. 18.
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 |
| מִלִּבְנָ֑ה | milivnah | from Libnah | H3841 → | |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּרִסָּֽה׃ | berisah | at Rissah | H7446 → |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מִלִּבְנָ֑הfrom Libnah
milivnahH3841 →
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּרִסָּֽה׃at Rissah
berisahH7446 →
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
Deuteronomy 1:1These 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.
it leads to
- 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.
- Joshua 22:7
(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to…
- Numbers 34:15
These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
- Joshua 9:1
Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,…
- Numbers 32:32
We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”
- 1 Samuel 25:1
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.