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Numbers 33:24

in Numbers 33

They set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.

KJV

And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.

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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.

Haradah - Unknown, Calmet supposes that it may be the place called Bered, Gen 16:14, which was in the vicinity of Kadesh. Stat. 21.

This site's exposition

and camped at Rissah

on Numbers 33:21-29

Nine camps in nine verses carry nothing but names. They belong to the years under the sentence of chapter 14, which Deuteronomy 2:14 counts at thirty-eight. The record keeps the movements of a generation whose story the narrative had stopped telling.

This site's exposition

camped at Haradah

Haradah appears only in this list. Adam Clarke calls it unknown and reports Calmet's guess that it is the Bered of Genesis 16:14, which lay near Kadesh. Origen reads the name as made competent and joins it to Paul's words about ministers of a new covenant.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12 · Written before 253.

proposed

Next they arrive at Charadath [Haradah], which in our language signifies "made competent." Indeed, this is just what Paul says, "He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant."

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

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

  • מֵֽהַר־from [the] mountain of

    mehar-H2022 →546 times

  • שָׁ֑פֶרShapher

    shaferH8234 →

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בַּחֲרָדָֽה׃at Haradah

    bacharadahH2732 →

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

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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Origen of Alexandria, Homilies on Numbers 27 and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.

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