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Numbers 33:18

And they went on from Hazeroth, and put up their tents in Rithmah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hazeroth;   Rithmah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hazeroth;   Juniper;   Rithmah;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alush;   Kadesh Barnea;   Kehelathah;   Number;   Numbers, the Book of;   Rithmah;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Broom Tree;   Rithmah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Rithmah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hazeroth ;   Rithmah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   Rithmah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Kadesh;   Paran;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Rith'mah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;   Rithmah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Juniper;   Scroll of the Law;   Sidra;   Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Hatzerot, and encamped in Ritmah.
King James Version
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
New Century Version
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
New English Translation
They traveled from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
Amplified Bible
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].
New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Hatzerot and camped at Ritmah.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Hazeroth they departed, & pitched in Rithma.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithma.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Aseroth, and encamped in Rathama.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And fro Asseroth thei camen in to Rethma.
Young's Literal Translation
and they journey from Hazeroth, and encamp in Rithmah.
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
New King James Version
They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
New Living Translation
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
New Life Bible
They left Hazeroth and stayed at Rithmah.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Hazeroth, - and encamped in Rithmah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Haze'roth, and encamped at Rithmah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron. 2 And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went. 3 On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians, 4 While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him. 5 So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth. 6 And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land. 7 And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol. 8 And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah. 9 And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there. 10 And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they departed: Numbers 12:16

Rithmah: Rithmah was a place in the wilderness of Paran, near Kadesh Barnea; probably so called from the great number of juniper trees, as the name signifies, growing in that district.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:1 - Hazeroth Revelation 11:1 - Rise

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Genesis 33:6
Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
Genesis 33:7
And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
Genesis 35:9
Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,
Genesis 46:15
All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.
Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,
John 3:23
Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.
John 4:5
So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched at Rithmah. Eight miles from Hazeroth: Rethem, from whence this place seems to have had its name, is generally rendered by "juniper", 1 Kings 19:4 and the Targum of Jonathan here adds, where the juniper trees grew; and, perhaps, it is the same with the valley of Retheme, of which some travellers e thus write, "this valley", called in the Hebrew Retheme, and commonly Ritma, derives its name from a yellow flower, with which the valley is covered; we found here, on the left hand, two cisterns of excellent water; and water being to be had here, might be the reason of the Israelites pitching in this place. Some learned men f think it is the same with Kadeshbarnea, from whence the spies were sent, that being the next remove from Hazeroth, as this was; see

Numbers 12:16, with which agrees the remark of Jarchi, that this place was so called, because of the evil tongue of the spies, as it is said, Psalms 120:3 "what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper"; alluding to the signification of Rithmah; perhaps this is the same place, which by Josephus g is called Dathema, and so in the Apocrypha:

"Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.'' (1 Maccabees 5:9)

e Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 2. p. 154. f Dr. Lightfoot, vol. 1. p. 35. Dr. Clayton's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, p. 382, 383. g Antiqu. l. 12. c. 8. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 these places, see the marginal reference.

Numbers 33:8

Pi-hahiroth - Hebrew “Hahiroth,” but perhaps only by an error of transcription. However, the omitted “pi” is only a common Egyptian prefix.

Wilderness of Etham - i. e., that part of the great wilderness of Shur which adjoined Etham; compare Exodus 15:22 note.

The list of stations up to that at Sinai agrees with the narrative of Exodus except that we have here mentioned Numbers 33:10 an encampment by the Red Sea, and two others, Dophkah and Alush Numbers 33:12-14, which are there omitted. On these places see Exodus 17:1 note.

Numbers 33:16, Numbers 33:17

See the Numbers 11:35 note.

Numbers 33:18

Rithmah - The name of this station is derived from retem, the broom-plant, the “juniper” of the King James Version. This must be the same encampment as that which is said in Numbers 13:26 to have been at Kadesh.

Numbers 33:19

Rimmon-parez - Or rather Rimmon-perez, i. e., “Rimmon (i. e., the Pomegranate) of the Breach.” It may have been here that the sedition of Korah occurred.

Verse 19-36

The stations named are those visited during the years of penal wandering. The determination of their positions is, in many cases, difficult, because during this period there was no definite line of march pursued. But it is probable that the Israelites during this period did not overstep the boundaries of the wilderness of Paran (as defined in Numbers 10:12), except to pass along the adjoining valley of the Arabah; while the tabernacle and organized camp moved about from place to place among them (compare Numbers 20:1).

Rissah, Haradah, and Tahath are probably the same as Rasa, Aradeh, and Elthi of the Roman tables. The position of Hashmonah (Heshmon in Joshua 15:27) in the Azazimeh mountains points out the road followed by the children of Israel to be that which skirts the southwestern extremity of Jebel Magrah.

Numbers 33:34

Ebronah - i. e, “passage.” This station apparently lay on the shore of the Elanitic gulf, at a point where the ebb of the tide left a ford across. Hence, the later Targum renders the word as “fords.”

Numbers 33:35

Ezion-gaber - “Giant’s backbone.” The Wady Ghadhyan, a valley running eastward into the Arabah some miles north of the present head of the Elanitic gulf. A salt marsh which here overspreads a portion of the Arabah may be taken as indicating the limit to which the sea anciently reached; and we may thus infer the existence here in former times of an extensive tidal haven, at the head of which the city of Ezion-geber stood. Here it was that from the time of Solomon onward the Jewish navy was constructed 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:49.

Numbers 33:41-49

Zalmonah and Punon are stations on the Pilgrim’s road; and the general route is fairly ascertained by a comparison of these verses with Numbers 21:4, etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

STAT. XIV.

Verse Numbers 33:18. RITHMAH.] This place lay somewhere in the wilderness of Paran, through which the Israelites were now passing. See Numbers 13:1; Numbers 13:3. The name signifies the juniper tree; and the place probably had its name from the great number of those trees growing in that district.


 
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