Numbers 33:36
in Numbers 33They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
KJV
And they removed from Ezion–gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
5 notes on this verseZin, which is Kadesh - A place remarkable for the death of Miriam the prophetess, and bringing water out of the rock. As this place was on the borders of Edom, the Israelites, being denied permission to pass through their land, which lay on the direct road to the promised land, were obliged to turn to the right to Mount Hor, now called Accaba by the Arabs. Stat. 33.
This site's exposition
in the wilderness of Zin
on Numbers 33:36-40
The second and last date in the chapter is a death, the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year, and Aaron at a hundred and twenty and three years is the only man whose dying this list records. Numbers 20:22-29 gives the account, the garments taken off Aaron and put on Eleazar on the mountain in sight of the congregation. Verse 40 breaks in with a Canaanite king who hears of their coming and then says nothing further, and Numbers 21:1-3 finishes that matter with the vow and the name Hormah. The fortieth year named here fixes the near end of the forty years passed in chapter 14.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Next they camp at Pharancades [Kadish], which is "holy fruitfulness." You see where they come from; you see that holy fruitfulness follows the ploughed furrows of temptations.
From there they come again to Sin [Zin]. And again Sin is "temptation." For we said that there is no other way of furthering our embarking upon this journey.
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
8 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 |
| מֵעֶצְי֣וֹן | meetzyon | from Ezion | H6100 → | 14 times |
| גָּ֑בֶר | gaver | Geber | H6100 → | 14 times |
| וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְמִדְבַּר־ | vemidbar- | in [the] wilderness of | H4057 → | 270 times |
| צִ֖ן | tzin | Zin | H6790 → | 10 times |
| הִ֥וא | hi' | that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| קָדֵֽשׁ׃ | kadesh | [is] Kadesh | H6946 → | 18 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵעֶצְי֣וֹןfrom Ezion
meetzyonH6100 →14 times
גָּ֑בֶרGeber
gaverH6100 →14 times
וַיַּחֲנ֥וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְמִדְבַּר־in [the] wilderness of
vemidbar-H4057 →270 times
צִ֖ןZin
tzinH6790 →10 times
הִ֥ואthat
hi'H1931 →1879 times
קָדֵֽשׁ׃[is] Kadesh
kadeshH6946 →18 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
Deuteronomy 32:51For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
it leads to
- Numbers 27:14
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 20:11–14
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
- 1 Kings 13:21–26
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept…
- Numbers 27:14
Through
Numbers 27:14for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:37
The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
- Exodus 17:7
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Numbers 20:8–13
“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from…
- Deuteronomy 32:51–52
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
- Deuteronomy 1:37
Through
Numbers 13:21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
it leads to
- Numbers 20:1
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- Numbers 20:1
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; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.