Numbers 20:1--21:35
entered <0935> [An. Ex. Is. 40. Then.]
This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare ch. 33:38, with ver. 28 of this chap. and De 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (ch. 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years.
wilderness <04057> [into.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See ch. 34:3, 4. Jos 15:1, 3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, ch. 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel.
Miriam <04813> [Miriam.]
water <04325> [no.]
gathered <06950> [gathered.]
only <03863> [God.]
brothers <0251> [when.]
brought <0935> [why.]
cattle <01165> [that we.]
dreadful <07451> [this evil.]
place ..... place ... grain <04725 02233> [no place of. i.e., "no place for sowing."]
threw <05307> [they fell.]
glory <03519> [the glory.]
staff <04294> [the rod.]
speak <01696> [speak.]
bring <03318> [bring forth.]
bring <03318> [we fetch.]
struck <05221> [smote.]
water <04325> [the water.]
trust <0539> [Because ye believed.]
holy <06942> [sanctify.]
bring <0935> [ye shall.]
waters <04325> [the water.]
Meribah <04809> [Meribah. i.e., Strife.]
[Meribah-Kadesh. he was.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
brother <0251> [thy brother.]
<04672> [befallen us. Heb. found us.]
ancestors ..................... ancestors <01> [our fathers.]
lived <03427> [dwelt.]
ancestors ................. treated ..... ancestors <07489 01> [vexed us.]
cried <06817> [we cried.]
sent ... messenger <07971 04397> [sent an.]
pass through <05674> [Thou shalt.]
Edom <0123> [And Edom.]
refused <03985> [refused.]
Israel ....... Israel <03478> [wherefore.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
Mount Hor <02023 02022> [mount Hor.]
Mount Hor was situated in Arabia Petr‘a, on the confines of Edom. It is described by Burckhardt, as being situated on the western side of a valley called Wady Mousa; in which are found the ruins of the ancient Petra, and which is two long days' journey north-east of Accaba (on the northern point of the Elanitic gulf of the Red sea,) in the Djebel Shera, or mount Seir, and on the east side of the Araba, the valley which forms the continuation of that of the Jordan. On the summit of the mountain is the tomb of Haroun, or Aaron, which is held in great veneration by the Arabs; which agrees with the testimonies of Josephus, Eusebius, and Jerome, all persons well acquainted with these countries, who agree in proving that the sepulchre of Aaron, in mount Hor, was near Petra. When visited by Mr. Legh, it was attended by a crippled Arab hermit, about 80 years of age, who conducted them into a small white building, crowned by a cupola, that contains the tomb of Aaron. The monument is of stone, about three feet high; and round the chamber where it stood were suspended beads, etc., the votive offerings of the devotees.
gathered <0622> [gathered.]
rebelled <04784> [because ye.]
word <06310> [word. Heb. mouth.]
Moses ....................... Moses <04872> [Moses.]
put ... on .... Eleazar ............... Eleazar <03847 0499> [put them.]
died ..... top <04191 07218> [died there.]
Arad <06166> [Arad.]
road ... Atharim <0871 01870> [the way of the spies.]
Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word {atharim,} rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name ([Atharein,] Atharim).
fought <03898> [then.]
made <05087> [vowed.]
utterly <02763> [I will.]
listened <08085> [hearkened.]
utterly <02763> [and they utterly.]
{Wyyacharem,} rather with the LXX. [kai anethematisen,] "and they anathematised, or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua. (Jos 12:14.)
name <08034> [the name.]
{Hormah,} that is, utter destruction. {Chormah,} rather a devoting to destruction: so LXX. [Anathema,] and Tremellius, {devotio sive anathema.}
Mount Hor <02023 02022> [mount Hor.]
road .................... way <01870> [by the way.]
around <05437> [compass.]
<05315> [the soul.]
impatient <07114> [discouraged. or, grieved. Heb. shortened.]
spoke <01696> [spake.]
detest <05315> [and our soul.]
sinned ..... spoken <02398 01696> [We have.]
Pray ................ prayed <06419> [pray.]
Moses ............................... Moses <04872> [And Moses.]
bronze snake ............ snake .......... bronze snake <05175 05178> [A serpent of.]
looked <05027> [when he.]
<02425> [he lived.]
Oboth <088> [Oboth.]
Probably Oboda, a city of Arabia Petr‘a, mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.
Iye Abarim <05863> [Ije-abarim. or, heaps of Abarim.]
valley ... Zered <02218 05158> [the valley of Zared.]
[the brook Zered.]
Book <05612> [in the book.]
Waheb <02052> [What he did. or, Vaheb in Suphah.]
The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; (which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree, upon their borders;) and from the wilderness (or the well, as in LXX.) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of this, from ver. 14-20, is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every difficulty.
Ar <06144> [Ar.]
falls off <08172> [lieth. Heb. leaneth.]
Beer <0876> [Beer.]
Gather <0622> [Gather.]
sang <07891> [sang.]
up <05927> [Spring up. Heb. ascend. sing ye. or answer.]
princes <08269> [princes.]
scepters <02710> [the lawgiver.]
wilderness <04057> [And from.]
country <07704> [country. Heb. field.]
top <07218> [to the.]
Pisgah <06449> [Pisgah. or the hill. Jeshimon. or, the wilderness.]
Sihon .... permit <05511 05414> [Sihon would.]
Jahaz <03096> [Jahaz.]
Israelites <03478> [Israel.]
Arnon <0769> [Arnon.]
settled <03427> [dwelt.]
Heshbon <02809> [in Heshbon.]
Heshbon was situated, according to Eusebius, twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome, who places it at the same distance, says it was, in his time, a very considerable city. It still subsists, in ruins, under the name of Heshban.
villages <01323> [villages. Heb. daughters.]
Arnon <0769> [Arnon.]
Arnon is a stream which takes its rise in the mountains of Moab, and, by a north-west course, during which it receives the waters of several streams, runs into the Dead sea. It is now called Wady Modjeb, and divides the province of Pelka from that of Kerek, as it formerly divided the kingdoms of the Moabites and Amorites. Its principal source is at a short distance to the north-east of Katrane, a station of the Syrian Hadj, where it is called Seyl Sayde; and lower down it receives the name of Esseim el Kereim, or Szefye.
fire <0784> [a fire.]
Ar ... Moab <06144 04124> [Ar of Moab.]
overpowered <03384> [have shot.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
Jaazer <03270> [Jaazer.]
[Jazer.]
turned <06437> [they turned.]
Bashan ...... Bashan <01316> [Bashan.]
Og <05747> [Og.]
fear ...... delivered ............. You will ...... you <03372 05414> [Fear him.]
delivered ............. You will ...... you <05414> [for I have.]
do ...... did <06213> [thou shalt.]
do ...... did <06213> [as thou.]
