RECOUNTING ISRAEL’S JOURNEY TO CANAAN

Numbers 33:1-37

RECOUNTING ISRAEL’S JOURNEY

These are the stages of the journeys of the Israelites, by which they came out of the land of Egypt by their [tribal] armies, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

Moses recorded their points of departure, as the LORD commanded, stage by stage; and these are their journeys according to their points of departure:

They set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites moved out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the LORD had struck down among them. Upon their gods the LORD also executed judgments.

Then the Israelites moved out from Rameses [where they had all joined together], and camped in Succoth.

They moved out from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

They moved out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

They moved out from before Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the [Red] Sea into the wilderness; and they went a three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

They moved out from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

They moved out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds).

They moved out from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.

They moved out from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

They moved out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

They moved out from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

They moved out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai [where they remained for about a year].

They moved out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

They moved out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

They moved out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah [near Kadesh, the place from which the twelve spies were sent to spy out the land of Canaan].

They moved out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

They moved out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

They moved out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

They moved out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

They moved out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

They moved out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.

They moved out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.

They moved out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

They moved out from Tahath and camped at Terah.

They moved out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

They moved out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.

They moved out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.

They moved out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.

They moved out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

They moved out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.

They moved out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

They moved out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber [or Elath on the gulf of Aqabah].

They moved out from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

They moved out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
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 the Land of Promise there had been little room for regret. But they were not. They recall journeys that need never to have been taken. The tribes crossed and re-crossed the desert, marking time while the bodies of the murmurers fell in the Wilderness and were wrapped about with the desert sands.

Such is the doom of unbelief. To effect nothing, to miss the rest of God, and to perish on the threshold of achievement-such is the experience of the soul described in Jas_1:6. God has given us in Christ the promise of rest, victory and satisfaction; let us enter upon our inheritance!

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