Numbers 33:37-44

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.

Numbers 33:37-44 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 10

  • 1. S Numbers 20:22
  • 2. S Genesis 36:16; S Numbers 20:16; Numbers 21:4
  • 3. S Numbers 27:13; Deuteronomy 10:6
  • 4. S Exodus 16:35
  • 5. Numbers 20:25-28
  • 6. S Genesis 10:18
  • 7. S Numbers 21:1
  • 8. S Genesis 12:9
  • 9. Numbers 21:10
  • 10. S Numbers 21:11
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