Numberi 20:22

22 Toen reisden zij van Kades; en de kinderen Israels kwamen, de ganse vergadering, aan den berg Hor.

Numberi 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.

Numberi 20:22 In-Context

20 Doch hij zeide: Gij zult niet doortrekken! En Edom is hem tegemoet uitgetrokken, met een zwaar volk, en met een sterke hand.

21 Alzo weigerde Edom Israel toe te laten door zijn landpale te trekken; daarom week Israel van hem af.

22 Toen reisden zij van Kades; en de kinderen Israels kwamen, de ganse vergadering, aan den berg Hor.

23 De HEERE nu sprak tot Mozes, en tot Aaron, aan den berg Hor, aan de pale van het land van Edom, zeggende:

24 Aaron zal tot zijn volken verzameld worden; want hij zal niet komen in het land, hetwelk Ik aan de kinderen Israels gegeven heb, omdat gijlieden Mijn mond wederspannig geweest zijt bij de wateren van Meriba.