“ And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. ”
This list was written out by Moses at God’s command Numbers 33:2 , doubtless as a memorial of God’s providential care for His people throughout this long and trying period. Numbers 33:3-6 . For...
The Itinerary of the Israelites between Egypt and the Jordan (P) The time covered is rather more than forty years ( Numbers 33:3 ; Numbers 33:38 ), and there is probably an artificial corresponden...
R issah. Not elsewhere mentioned.
And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. Bissah - A place mentioned nowhere else in the sacred writings. Its situation utterly uncertain. Stat. 18.
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hatta'avah. Kibroth-hattaavah - the graves of lust (see the notes at Numbers 9:4-23 ). The route, on breaking up the encampme...
The Journeyings of the Israelites from Egypt to the Plains of Moab The greater part of this chapter is occupied with a list, drawn up by Moses himself ( Numbers 33:2 ), of the Encampments of the I...
THE WAY AND THE LOT Numbers 33:1-56 ; Numbers 34:1-29 1. THE itinerary of Numbers 33:1-49 is one of the passages definitely ascribed to Moses. It opens with the departure from Rameses in Egy...
the Itinerary of the Wanderings Numbers 33:1-37 This record of ineffectual marches is full of pathetic interest and warning. If these halting-places had been in the straight line of march for t...
An account of the wanderings of the people in the wilderness was written by Moses at the express command of God. It appears as a bare and uninteresting list of names and yet it tells the story of a p...
I connect into one and the same point of view, the whole forty-two stages of Israel, because that one and the same general observations meet us through everyone of them. Let the Reader, however, rema...
Numbers 33:19 .
THE REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S JOURNEY FROM EGYPT (vs.1-49) Just as, at the judgment seat of Christ, there will be a review of all our history here on earth, so we find now a review of Israel's journey f...
Encampments of the Israelites. B. C. 1452. 1 These are the journeys of the children of...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez. And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah. And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. And they journeye...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have a list of the places at which the Israelites encamped from their departure from Egypt unto their arrival at the Jordan ( Numbers 33:1-49 ), and...
To understand this chapter, the map must be carefully consulted; reference must also be made by the margin to the principal places. Some of them were no more than a rock, or a well; others were small...
EXPOSITION ITINERARY OF THE WANDERINGS ( Numbers 33:1-4 ). Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys. The Hebrew word מַסְעֵי is rendered σταθμοί by the Septuagint, which means "sta...
From Egypt to the Plains of Moab
Deuteronomy 1:1