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Numbers 33:18

in Numbers 33

They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

KJV

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

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This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Rithmah - This place lay somewhere in the wilderness of Paran, through which the Israelites were now passing. See Num 13:1, Num 13:3. The name signifies the juniper tree; and the place probably had its name from the great number of those trees growing in that district. Stat. 15.

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 Rithmah

Rithmah appears only in this list, and Adam Clarke places it in the Wilderness of Paran. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown count eighteen stations between Hazeroth and Kadesh against the eleven days of travel in Deuteronomy 1:2. They conclude these camps belong to a second visit to Kadesh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched at Rithmah.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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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The words behind it

4 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

  • מֵחֲצֵרֹ֑תfrom Hazeroth

    mechatzerotH2698 →6 times

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בְּרִתְמָֽה׃at Rithmah

    beritmahH7575 →

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

Related verses

2 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

    Numbers 12:16

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

    it leads to

    • Numbers 11:35

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

    • Numbers 10:12

      and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

    • Numbers 13:3

      So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

    • Genesis 21:21

      And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

    • 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.

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.
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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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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