Stations. | Modern names. | Events. | Recorded in. |
1. Rameses, | Tel el Kebir (?), | Starting for Canaan, | |
2. Succoth or Pithom, | Tel el Maskhuta, | First camping-place, | |
3. Etham, | Wady Tumeilat, | Pillar of fire and cloud, | |
4. Pi-hahiroth, | Near Ismaileh, | Pursued by Pharaoh, |
5.Red Sea (crossed), | Egyptians drowned, |
6. Marah, | Ain Howarah (?), | Bitter water made sweet, | |
7. Elim, | Wady Gharandel, | 12 wells of water, |
8. By Red Sea (east side), | Near Wady Feiran, |
9. Wilderness of Sin, | el Markha, | Quails and manna, |
10. Dophkah, | In Wady Feiran, | |
11. Alush, | In Wady Feiran, |
12. Rephidim (Massah and Meribah), | In Wady Feiran, | Water from a rock, | |
Battle with Amelek, | |||
13. Sinai, | Ras-sufsafeh, | The law given, |
14. Taberah ("burning"), | Slain by fire, | |
15. Kibroth-hattavah ("graves of lusting"), | Smitten with plague, |
16. Hazeroth (Rithmah), | Ain Hudhera, | Leprosy of Miriam, |
17. Wilderness Paran, | et Tih, |
18. Kadesh Barnea, | Ain Qadis (?), | 12 spies sent, |
19. Forty years' wandering, | People rebel; 14,700 die; |
Korah and his company slain. |
[The unbelief of the Israelites causes Jehovah to condemn them to wander for forty years in the wilderness. During this period they had their head-quarters or encampments at the following seventeen places, and then reassembled at Kadesh for a final departure from the wilderness to enter Canaan.] |
20. Rimmon-perez, | Probably et Tih, | |
21. Libnah | Probably el Beyaneh, | |
22. Rissah, | Rasa | |
23. Kehelathah, | (?) | |
24. Mt. Shepher, | Jebel Sheraph | |
25. Haradah, | Aradeh | |
26. Makheloth, | (?) | |
27. Tahath, | Elt hi (?), | |
28. Terah, | (?) | |
29. Mithkah, | (?) | |
30. Hashmonah, | Heshmon (?) Ain Hoch, | |
31. Moseroth, | West of Arabah, | |
32. Bene-jaakan, | (?) | |
33. Hor-hagidgad, | (?) |
34. Jotbathah, | Wady Tabah (?), |
35. Ebronah, | On Elanitic Gulf, | |
36. Ezion-geber, | Head of Elanitic Gulf, |
37. Kadesh (Wilderness of Zin), | Ain Qadis (?), | Miriam dies; water from rock, Meribah, |
38. Mt. Hor, | (?) | Aaron dies, Numbers 20:23-29; Deut. 33:50. |
39. Zalmonah, | Alem-maan (?), | Fiery serpents, |
40. Punon, | Anezeh (?), | ||
41. Oboth, | el-Alsa, | ||
42. Ije-abarim, | East of Moab, | ||
43. Dibon-gad (in Zared), | Dhiban, |
44. Almon-diblathaim, | (?) | Amorites defeated, |
45. Nebo | Mts. of Moab, |
46. Plains of Moab, | Valley of Jordan. | Balaam's prophecy, | |
47. Shittim | Valley of Jordan. | 24,000 die of plague, |
48. Moab, Plains of, | People numbered: law repeated; | Numbers 26:1 to Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 1:1 to Deuteronomy 31:30. |
dan; Moses dies; Joshua, leader, |
49. Jordan (crossed), | Near Jericho, | Waters divided, | |
50. Gilgal, | Near Jericho. | Circumcision renewed,. |
51. Jericho, Fall of, | Rahab saved, | ||
52. Ai, Defeat at, | Achan's sin, | ||
53. Ai taken, | 12.000 slain, | ||
54. Shechem, | Altar built; law read; blessings and cursings from Ebal and Gerizim, | ||
65. Gilgal, Return to, | [Gibeonites craft and punishment, | ||
66. Gibeon rescued, | [Sun and moon stand still; five kings slain. |
57. Makkedah, Libnah and Lachish destroyed, | ||
68. Eglon, Hebron, and Debir taken, |
59. Gilgal, Return again to, | [Southern Canaan conquered, | |
60. Merom, | [Great battle; northern Canaan conquered, | |
61. Shiloh 228 | [Tabernacle set up; land divided and settled, |
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