Numbers 33:36-46

36 And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).

37 And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents in Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

38 And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time of his death in Mount Hor.

40 And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in the land of Canaan.

41 And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in Zalmonah.

42 And they went on from Zalmonah, and put up their tents in Punon.

43 And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in Oboth.

44 And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in Iye-abarim at the edge of Moab.

45 And they went on from Iyim, and put up their tents in Dibon-gad.

46 And from Dibon-gad they went on, and put up their tents in Almon-diblathaim.

Numbers 33:36-46 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.