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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 33:1-49

This is a review and brief rehearsal of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It was a memorable history and well worthy to be thus abridged, and the abridgment thus preserved, to the honour of God that led them and for the encouragement of the generations that followed. Observe here, I. How the account was kept: Moses wrote their goings out, Num. 33:2. When they began this tedious march, God ordered him to keep a journal or diary, and to insert in it all the remarkable... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:32-37

And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad. In the Targum Jonathan called Gudgod, as it is Gudgodah in Deuteronomy 10:7 , where the remove to this place is said to be from Mosera; it was twenty miles from Benejaaken; from thence they went to Jotbathah, twenty four miles from Horhagidgad; and from thence to Ebronah, twenty miles more; and so to Eziongeber, of which see 1 Kings 9:26 which was twenty eight miles from Ebrorah; and their next remove was to the wilderness of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:38

And Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor, at the commandment of the Lord ,.... Delivered to Moses: and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of Egypt ; not being suffered to go with them into the land of Canaan, because of his sin of unbelief at Kadesh, the last place from whence they came: in Mount Hor he died: on the first day of the fifth month ; the month Ab, answering to part of July and part of August; so that he lived but four months... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:39

And Aaron was one hundred and twenty three years old when he died in Mount Hor. He was eighty three when he stood before Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7 , and forty years he had been with Israel since, which make this number; he was three years older than Moses. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:40-44

And King Arad the Canaanite ,.... Or the king of Arad the Canaanite: which dwelt in the land of Canaan, he heard of the coming of the children of Israel ; towards the land of Canaan, in order to possess it, and he came out and fought with them, and was vanquished; see Numbers 21:1 , this was when Israel was at Mount Hor; from whence they departed to Zalmonah, twenty eight miles from the mount; and from thence to Punon, which was twenty more; and so to Oboth, which was twenty four miles... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:37

Hor - Famous for the death of Aaron. See on Numbers 20 (note). Perhaps Moseroth or Mosera, Numbers 33:30 ; (note), was a village near this mountain. Stat. 34. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:41

Zalmonah - Probably in the neighborhood of the land of Edom. As צלם tselem signifies an image, this place probably had its name from the brazen serpent set up by Moses. See Numbers 21:9 ; (note), etc. From the same root the word telesm , corruptly called talisman, which signifies a consecrated image, is derived. Stat. 35. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:39

Verse 39 39.And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old. It is not without reason that the great age of Aaron is expressly stated, inasmuch as his life had been prolonged to an unusual period, for the good of the people. At the age of an hundred he had already exceeded the ordinary extent of life; whereas, by God’s extraordinary blessing, he survived until the people were about to pass into the promised land. Hence their ingratitude was the more base in not acknowledging this... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 33:40

Verse 40 40.And king Arad the Canaanite. Although Moses gives no account of a battle, yet he briefly revives the recollection of the previous history; as much as to say, that in this part of their journey the Israelites at length met with their enemy, since they then began to fight with one of the nations of Canaan. In a word, the meaning is, that this was the beginning of their warfare, when the land which God had promised them as an inheritance was about to be occupied. read more

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