Numbers 20:22

They marched from Kadesh.

Aaron’s death at Mount Hor

22 The entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.

Numbers 20:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:22

And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh
Not directly, but after they had continued there some time, and had furnished themselves with provisions for their journey, which they bought of the Edomites, see ( Judges 11:17 ) , "the whole congregation" is observed to Journey from hence, not one of them being lost by the king of Edom's coming out against them; these went out complete and perfect, safe and sound:

and came unto Mount Hor;
which, according to Bunting F6, was forty eight miles from Kadesh; this had not its name from the Horim or Horites, nor they from that, their name being written with a different letter, but from Harar, a mountain, for the word itself signifies a mountain; wherefore it may be rendered, "a mountain of the mountain", which Jarchi interprets a mountain on the top of a mountain. Josephus


FOOTNOTES:

F7 says, that here stood a city, formerly called Arce, since Petra, surrounded with an high mountain, where Aaron went and died; and Pliny says F8 of Petra, that it is encompassed with inaccessible mountains.


F6 Travels of the Patriarchs p. 83.
F7 Antiqu. l. 4. c. 4. sect. 7.
F8 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.

Numbers 20:22 In-Context

20 But he said, "You won't cross." Then Edom came out against them with a powerful army and a strong hand.
21 Edom refused to allow Israel to cross his border. And Israel turned away from him.
22 They marched from Kadesh. The entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.
23 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom:
24 Aaron will join his ancestors, for he may not enter the land that I've given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
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