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Numbers 33:17

in Numbers 33

They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.

KJV

And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. Eight miles from Kibrothhattaavah, where Miriam was smote with leprosy, Num 12:1.

This site's exposition

set out from the Wilderness of Sinai

on Numbers 33:16-20

Two of these camps carry their own stories. Kibroth-hattaavah has the graves of those who craved meat at Numbers 11:34, and Hazeroth has Miriam's seven days outside the camp at Numbers 12:14-15. After Hazeroth the list gives only names.

This site's exposition

camped at Hazeroth

Numbers 11:35 records this move from Kibroth-hattaavah and says the people remained there for some time. At Hazeroth Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, and John Gill notes from Numbers 12 that Miriam was struck with leprosy there. Numbers 12:16 then takes the camp into Paran.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12 · Written before 253.

proposed

Next they come to Aseroth [Hazeroth]. This means "perfect halls" or "blessedness."Consider quite carefully, each of you wanderers, what the order of progress is. After you have been buried and have handed over the lusts of the flesh to death, you will come to the spacious dignity of halls, you will come to blessedness. For blessed is the soul that is no longer driven by any vices of the flesh.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Hazeroth - This place Dr. Shaw computes to have been about thirty miles distant from Mount Sinai. Stat. 14.

The words behind it

5 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

  • מִקִּבְרֹ֣תfrom Kibroth

    mikivrotH6914 →10 times

  • הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑הHattaavah

    hataavahH6914 →10 times

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בַּחֲצֵרֹֽת׃at Hazeroth

    bachatzerotH2698 →6 times

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

The walk

2 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

    Numbers 11:35

    From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 12:16

      After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

    • Deuteronomy 1:1

      These 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.

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.

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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; MannaFest exposition, Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 33 read with Numbers 11 and 12; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.