Numbers 20:22

The Death of Aaron

22 The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

Numbers 20:22 in Other Translations

22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

22 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

22 The whole community of Israel left Kadesh and arrived at Mount Hor.

22 The People of Israel, the entire company, set out from Kadesh and traveled to Mount Hor.

22 After they set out from Kadesh, 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

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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 Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

21 Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.

22 The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

23 At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

24 “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 1:46
• 2. Numbers 33:37; Numbers 34:7; Deuteronomy 32:50