Numbers 10:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. ”

• Numbers 10:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Three days’ journey - Probably a technical expression for such a distance as could not be traversed in a single day, and therefore not without intervals of encampment and due provision: compare...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And they departed from the (n) mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. (n)...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Numbers 10:33-36 (JE). The Movements of the Ark. Here the Ark is not regarded as carried in the middle of the column (as in Numbers 10:21 ), but as preceding it ( cf. Psalms 68:7 ). The addr...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  mount of the LORD . mountain of Jehovah: because His glory had there been revealed. three days. From 20-23 Ziph. App-50.

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• Numbers 10:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  33. And they departed from the mount of the Lord. He calls Sinai “the mount of the Lord,” because in no other place had God’s glory been so conspicuously manifested. This, I admit, it had be...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. The ark...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the ark—went before them— The ark was carried in the midst of the camp; see ch. Numbers 2:17 and the 21st of this chapter. The words before them, in the Hebrew, signify, in their presence;...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them....

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• Numbers 10:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Journeyings from Sinai to moab ( Numbers 10:11 to Numbers 22:1 ) After a stay at Sinai of nearly a year (cp. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1 ) the signal is given for the breaking up of the ca...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Three days’ journey. — The place at which the first protracted halt was made appears to have been either at Taberah, which means burning, or at Kibroth-hattaavah, the graves of lust. (Comp. Nu...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  HOBAB THE KENITE Numbers 10:29-36 THE Kenites, an Arab tribe belonging to the region of Midian, and sometimes called Midianites, sometimes Amalekites, were already in close and friendly relatio...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Come Thou with Us” Numbers 10:17-36 The invitation of Moses to Hobab is one that we may all give to our friends: “We are journeying to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.” “We should alwa...

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• Numbers 10:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The use of trumpets in the history of the people is full of interest and here we find instructions concerning it. They were intended to call the people to attention, that led to obedience. The blast...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is not positively said, whether Hobab was prevailed upon or not. I think it most probable, that the grace of GOD inclined him to go, and that he went with Israel, as we find mention made of his fa...

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• Numbers 10:33 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  GUIDES—HUMAN AND DIVINE ‘Be to us instead of eyes.… The ark … went before them.’ Numbers 10:31-33 I. Moses’ lack of faith. —When they were about to leave Sinai, Moses begged his father-in-l...

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• Numbers 10:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days' journey ,...., From Mount Sinai, so called, because the Lord descended upon it, and gave the law from it; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonat...

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• Numbers 10:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. Ver. 3...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Three days With continued journeys; only it seems probable that the cloud made little pauses, that they might have time for sleep and necessary refreshments. The ark went before them Although in...

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• Numbers 10:33 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  TWO SILVER TRUMPETS (vs.1-10) We have seen in the cloud and the fire the providential guidance of God over His people. Yet we are not left to depend totally upon this, for now the trumpets speak...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Moses's Request to Hobab. B. C. 1490.       29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Three days journey, with continued journeys, only it seems most probable that the cloud made little pauses, that they might have time for sleep and necessary refreshments, which their natures requi...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh Leads The Way ( Numbers 10:33-36 ). Ahead of the fighting contingents went the Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh. It was a regular feature of nations going forth to w...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 10:1-10 . Instructions for signalling the movements of the camp are properly inserted here as one of the necessary preliminaries for the march which was about...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 10:2 . Two trumpets, for the two sons of Aaron. We also read that one hundred and twenty priests had each of them a trumpet. 2 Chronicles 5:12 . Numbers 10:10 . Ye shall blow with the...

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• Numbers 10:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE ACTUAL DEPARTURE FROM SINAI ( Numbers 10:33-4 ). Numbers 10:33 And they departed. These words mark the moment of actual departure, which has been anticipated i...

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• Numbers 10:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Hobab Persuaded to Join the Host

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• Numbers 10:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 4:3 ; Deuteronomy 1:33 ; Deuteronomy 31:26 ; Deuteronomy 9:9 ; Exodus 19:3 ; Exodus 24:17 ; Exodus 24:18 ; Exodus 3:1 ; Exodus 33:14 ; Exodus 33:15 ; Ezekiel 20:6 ; Hebrews 13:20...

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• Numbers 10:33 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Three days — With continued journeys; only it seems probable, that the cloud made little pauses that they might have time for sleep and necessary refreshments. The ark went before them — Altho' in...

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