And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
and they journey from Rissah, and encamp in Kehelathah.
And they removed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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From it they come to Macelath [Kehelathah], which is "sovereignty" or "staff." Power seems to be meant by both and that the soul has progressed so far as to rule over the body and to obtain by that the staff of power. Indeed, it is power not only over the body but also over the whole world that Paul means when he says, "By the cross the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12, 253patristic
Kehelathah - Utterly unknown; though some conjecture that it might have been the place called Keilah, 1Sa 23:1, etc., but this is unlikely. Stat. 19.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
