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Numbers 33:14

in Numbers 33

They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

KJV

And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

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This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rephidim--These three stations, in the great valleys of El Sheikh and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (Ex 17:6) was in Horeb, the burnt region--a generic name for a hot, mountainous country. [See on Ex 17:1.]

This site's exposition

and camped at Dophkah

on Numbers 33:12-15

Dophkah and Alush are named here and nowhere else in Scripture. Verse 14 breaks the pattern with a clause about the place, "where there was no water for the people to drink". Exodus 17:1-7 stands behind it.

This site's exposition

where there was no water for the people to drink

The clause matches Exodus 17:1 almost word for word. At Rephidim the rock was struck and the place named Massah and Meribah at Exodus 17:7, and Exodus 17:8 sets the battle with Amalek there. Adam Clarke marks the camp for the people's rebellion against Moses over water.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12 · Written before 253.

proposed

Now Raphidin [Rephidim] means "praise of judgment." Praise most justly follows toils, but what is the praise of? Judgment, it says. Therefore the soul becomes worthy of praise when it judges rightly, discerns rightly, that is, when it judges all things spiritually and is itself judged by no one.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim,.... Eight miles from Alush: where was no water for the people to drink; and they murmured, and a rock here was smitten by Moses at the command of God, and waters gushed out sufficient for them and their flocks, Exo 17:1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Rephidim - Remarkable for the rebellion of the Israelites against Moses, because of the want of water, Exodus 17. Stat. 11.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out

    vaiyisuH5265 →146 times

  • מֵאָל֑וּשׁfrom Alush

    mealushH442 →

  • וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙and they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בִּרְפִידִ֔םat Rephidim

    birfidimH7508 →

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הָ֨יָהit belonged

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • שָׁ֥םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • מַ֛יִםwater

    mayimH4325 →581 times

  • לָעָ֖םto the people

    laamH5971 →1873 times

  • לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃to drink

    lishtotH8354 →217 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Exodus 19:2

    After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 3:1

      Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

    • Exodus 17:1

      Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

    • Exodus 3:12

      “I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will…

    • Exodus 17:8

      After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

    • Exodus 18:5

      Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 33 →

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); MannaFest exposition, Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 33 read with Exodus 17 and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.

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