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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Numbers 33:18
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They journeyed from Hatzerot, and encamped in Ritmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They traveled from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
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 journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They moved on from Hatzerot and camped at Ritmah.
And they removed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah.
They traveled from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And they pulled up stakes from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
From Hazeroth they departed, & pitched in Rithma.
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
And they went on from Hazeroth, and put up their tents in Rithmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithma.
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
And they departed from Aseroth, and encamped in Rathama.
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And fro Asseroth thei camen in to Rethma.
and they journey from Hazeroth, and encamp in Rithmah.
And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
They journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They left Hazeroth and stayed at Rithmah.
They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
And they brake up from Hazeroth, - and encamped in Rithmah.
And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.
And they set out from Haze'roth, and encamped at Rithmah.
Contextual Overview
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
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.
Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.
Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother's father, saying,
John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized—
So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that 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.
