Numbers 33:16-56

16 They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
17 They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
18 They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
19 They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
21 They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23 They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24 They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25 They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26 They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27 They left Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They left Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29 They left Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30 They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
31 They left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
32 They left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.
33 They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34 They left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
35 They left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
36 They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.
37 They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.
38 At the LORD’s command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.
39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
41 They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43 They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
44 They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
45 They left Iye Abarim and camped at Dibon Gad.
46 They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
47 They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.
48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
50 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the LORD said to Moses,
51 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
54 Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
55 “ ‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.’ ”

Numbers 33:16-56 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.

Cross References 36

  • 1. S Numbers 11:34
  • 2. Numbers 11:35
  • 3. Joshua 10:29; Joshua 12:15; Joshua 15:42; Joshua 21:13; 2 Kings 8:22; 2 Kings 19:8; 2 Kings 23:31; 1 Chronicles 6:57; 2 Chronicles 21:10; Isaiah 37:8; Jeremiah 52:1
  • 4. Deuteronomy 10:6
  • 5. Deuteronomy 10:6
  • 6. Deuteronomy 10:7
  • 7. Deuteronomy 2:8; 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:48
  • 8. S Numbers 13:21; Numbers 20:1
  • 9. S Numbers 20:22
  • 10. S Genesis 36:16; S Numbers 20:16; Numbers 21:4
  • 11. S Numbers 27:13; Deuteronomy 10:6
  • 12. S Exodus 16:35
  • 13. Numbers 20:25-28
  • 14. S Genesis 10:18
  • 15. S Numbers 21:1
  • 16. S Genesis 12:9
  • 17. Numbers 21:10
  • 18. S Numbers 21:11
  • 19. Numbers 27:12
  • 20. Numbers 32:3
  • 21. Numbers 27:12
  • 22. S Numbers 26:3
  • 23. S Genesis 13:10
  • 24. Numbers 22:1; Joshua 12:9
  • 25. Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20; Ezekiel 25:9
  • 26. S Numbers 21:16; Numbers 25:1
  • 27. ver 48
  • 28. Numbers 34:2; Joshua 3:17
  • 29. Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13; S Leviticus 26:1; Deuteronomy 7:2,5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Joshua 11:12; Psalms 106:34-36
  • 30. Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 17:14; Joshua 1:11; Joshua 21:43
  • 31. S Leviticus 16:8; Numbers 36:2
  • 32. Numbers 26:54
  • 33. Numbers 35:8
  • 34. Joshua 18:10
  • 35. Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3; Psalms 106:36; Isaiah 55:13; Ezekiel 2:6; Ezekiel 28:24; Micah 7:4; 2 Corinthians 12:7
  • 36. Numbers 14:28
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