Numbers 22:39

22:39 So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

Numbers 20:22

Aaron’s Death

20:22 So the entire company of Israelites ¹  traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. ² 

Numbers 22:14

22:14 So the princes of Moab departed ³  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

Numbers 13:23

13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff ⁴  between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.

Numbers 20:1

The Israelites Complain Again

20:1 ⁵ Then the entire community of Israel ⁶  entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, ⁷  and the people stayed in Kadesh. ⁸  Miriam died and was buried there. ⁹ 

Numbers 22:7

22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported ¹⁰  to him the words of Balak.

Numbers 22:16

22:16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming ¹¹  to me.

Numbers 32:2

32:2 the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

Numbers 33:9

33:9 They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.

Numbers 13:26

The Spies’ Reports

13:26 They came back ¹²  to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. ¹³  They reported ¹⁴  to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

Numbers 31:12

31:12 They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the plains ¹⁵  of Moab, along the Jordan River ¹⁶  across from Jericho. ¹⁷ 

Numbers 31:54

31:54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders ¹⁸  of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial ¹⁹  for the Israelites before the Lord.

[20:22]  ¹ tn Again the passage uses apposition: “the Israelites, the whole community.”

[20:22]  ² sn The traditional location for this is near Petra (Josephus, Ant. 4.4.7). There is serious doubt about this location since it is well inside Edomite territory, and since it is very inaccessible for the transfer of the office. Another view places it not too far from Kadesh Barnea, about 15 miles (25 km) northeast at Jebel Madurah, on the northwest edge of Edom and so a suitable point of departure for approaching Canaan from the south (see J. L. Mihelec, IDB 2:644; and J. de Vaulx, Les Nombres [SB], 231). Others suggest it was at the foot of Mount Hor and not actually up in the mountains (see Deut 10:6).

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “rose up.”

[13:23]  ¹ tn The word is related etymologically to the verb for “slip, slide, bend, totter.” This would fit the use very well. A pole that would not bend would be hard to use to carry things, but a pole or stave that was flexible would serve well.

[20:1]  ¹ sn This chapter is the account of how Moses struck the rock in disobedience to the Lord, and thereby was prohibited from entering the land. For additional literature on this part, see E. Arden, “How Moses Failed God,” JBL 76 (1957): 50-52; J. Gray, “The Desert Sojourn of the Hebrews and the Sinai Horeb Tradition,” VT 4 (1954): 148-54; T. W. Mann, “Theological Reflections on the Denial of Moses,” JBL 98 (1979): 481-94; and J. R. Porter, “The Role of Kadesh-Barnea in the Narrative of the Exodus,” JTS 44 (1943): 130-43.

[20:1]  ² tn The Hebrew text stresses this idea by use of apposition: “the Israelites entered, the entire community, the wilderness.”

[20:1]  ³ sn The text does not indicate here what year this was, but from comparing the other passages about the itinerary, this is probably the end of the wanderings, the fortieth year, for Aaron died some forty years after the exodus. So in that year the people come through the wilderness of Zin and prepare for a journey through the Moabite plains.

[20:1]  ⁴ sn The Israelites stayed in Kadesh for some time during the wandering; here the stop at Kadesh Barnea may have lasted several months. See the commentaries for the general itinerary.

[20:1]  ⁵ sn The death of Miriam is recorded without any qualifications or epitaph. In her older age she had been self-willed and rebellious, and so no doubt humbled by the vivid rebuke from God. But she had made her contribution from the beginning.

[22:7]  ¹ tn Heb “spoke.”

[22:16]  ¹ tn The infinitive construct is the object of the preposition.

[13:26]  ¹ tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other.

[13:26]  ² sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh-barnea in Num 32:8.

[13:26]  ³ tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).

[31:12]  ¹ tn Or “steppes.”

[31:12]  ² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[31:12]  ³ tn Again this expression, “the Jordan of Jericho,” is used. It describes the intended location along the Jordan River, the Jordan next to or across from Jericho.

[31:54]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text does not repeat the word “commanders” here, but it is implied.

[31:54]  ² tn The purpose of the offering was to remind the Lord to remember Israel. But it would also be an encouragement for Israel as they remembered the great victory.