Numbers 33:51-53, Numbers 33:55

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Numbers 33:38-56

No Compromise with Idolatry Numbers 33:38-56 Aaron’s death must have been deeply felt by his brother Moses. During the great crisis of Hebrew history they had been so closely associated that the wrench must have been very considerable. In addition, there was the recollection of the sin which had excluded the two brothers from Canaan. In the Epistle to the Hebrews the death of Aaron is recorded to set forth the eternal priesthood of Christ, Hebrews 7:17 . Our High Priest has no successor; His... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Numbers 33:1-56

An account of the wanderings of the people in the wilderness was written by Moses at the express command of God. It appears as a bare and uninteresting list of names and yet it tells the story of a people guided by God through discipline. In the course of it there are occasional glimpses of light, revelations of varying experiences but of unvarying guidance. Through shadow and through sunshine, through trial and through triumph, by ways that were gracious, they were led with unceasing... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:50-56

2). The Dividing Up Of The Land That Was Set Before Them (Numbers 33:50 to Numbers 34:29 ). Having arrived at the plains of Moab with the land visible over the Jordan, a preliminary indication of what would be expected of them, and what they might expect to receive, was now provided for them. This will be followed in Numbers 34:0 by a brief description of the land and the names of those who will divide it out between them. The picture is being dangled in front of their eyes of the prize that... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:50-56

Numbers 33:50-Titus : . A Command to Destroy the Objects of Canaanite Worship.— The substance of this is given also in Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13, Deuteronomy 12:2 f. With Numbers 33:55 cf. Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:3. Numbers 33:52 . figured stones: stones covered with idolatrous emblems— high places: since these could be “ demolished,” the expression must here mean not natural heights ( Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12) but artificial mounds or shrines ( cf. 1 Kings 11:7). Numbers 33:54 .... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Numbers 33:52

Ye shall drive out; not by banishing, but by destroying them, as it is explained, Deuteronomy 7:1,Deuteronomy 7:2, and elsewhere. Their pictures seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship. See Deuteronomy 16:22. Molten images. See Exodus 23:24,Exodus 23:32; Deuteronomy 7:5. High places, i.e. by a metonymy, the chapels, altars, groves, or other means of worship there set up, for the hills themselves could not be destroyed by them. See Poole "Deuteronomy 12:2". read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Numbers 33:1-56

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESIn this chapter we have a list of the places at which the Israelites encamped from their departure from Egypt unto their arrival at the Jordan (Numbers 33:1-49), and directions as to the conquest and distribution of Canaan (Numbers 33:50-56).Numbers 33:1-2, form the introduction to the list of encampments.Numbers 33:3. Rameses, a city in “the western part of the land of Goshen.”—Bibl. Dict.Numbers 33:4. Buried. “Rather, ‘were burying.’ ”—Speaker’s Comm.Numbers... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:1-56

Chapter 33Now in chapter thirty-three you have a summary of their exodus out of Egypt. Moses sort of wrote down all of the places where they had stopped as they made this journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. And for the most part it's just a lot of names that you don't recognize; some of them are new, some of them are the first time we see them, some of them we remember from our journey in the book of Exodus.Now in verse fifty-one of chapter thirty-three the Lord commanded Moses,Speak unto... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 33:1-56

To understand this chapter, the map must be carefully consulted; reference must also be made by the margin to the principal places. Some of them were no more than a rock, or a well; others were small towns. The Septuagint, and especially in the 10th of Deuteronomy, varies in the orthography from the Hebrew. Numbers 33:1 . The journeys; the mansions, or resting places. Some divines have spiritualized these names very curiously, to illustrate our journey to heaven. Numbers 33:2 . Moses... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Numbers 33:50-56

Numbers 33:50-56Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you.The expulsion of the CanaanitesI. The imperative command.1. To utterly expel the inhabitants of Canaan.2. To completely destroy all idolatrous objects and places.3. To equitably divide the land.4. The authority by which they were to do these things.II. The solemn warning.1. Those whom they spared would become their tormentors. “Under these metaphors,” says Dr. A. Clarke, “the continual mischief that should be... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Numbers 33:52

Num 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: Ver. 52. Destroy all the pictures. ] Those Balaam’s blocks, those excellent instruments of idolatry; such as was the cross of Hailes, and Cockram cross, which, if it would not serve to make a god, yet with a pair of horns clapped on his head, might make an excellent devil, as the mayor of Doncaster... read more

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