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Numbers 33:13

Then they left Dophkah and stayed at Alush.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alush;   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 - Alush;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Rephidim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alush;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alush ;   Dophkah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Paran;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'lush;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Dofka, and encamped in Alush.
King James Version
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Century Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New English Translation
And they traveled from Dophkah, and camped in Alush.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Dofkah and camped at Alush.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Raphka and encamped in Alush.
Good News Translation
and after that at Alush.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Dophkah and camped in Alush.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fro Daphka they departed, and pitched in Alus.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Daphka, and lay in Alus.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Ælus.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Depheca, and settiden tentis in Haluys.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
New King James Version
They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Living Translation
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Dophkah, - and encamped in Alush.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the travels of the people of Israel, when Moses and Aaron led them out from the land of Egypt by their armies. 2 Moses wrote down the starting places of their travels, as the Lord told him. These are their travels by their starting places. 3 They traveled from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover the people of Israel started out strong in heart in front of all the Egyptians. 4 The Egyptians were burying all their first-born whom the Lord had killed among them. The Lord had punished their gods also. 5 Then the people of Israel traveled from Rameses and stayed in Succoth. 6 They traveled from Succoth and stayed in Etham, beside the desert. 7 They went from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and stayed at Migdol. 8 Then they traveled from Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert. They traveled for three days in the desert of Etham, and stayed at Marah. 9 They left Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees in Elim, and they stayed there. 10 Then they traveled from Elim and stayed by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But Jacob said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."
Genesis 33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33:17
But Jacob traveled to Succoth. He built his house there, and put up small buildings for his animals. So the name of the place is Succoth.
1 Chronicles 22:5
David said, "My son Solomon is young and does not yet have much learning. And the house that is to be built for the Lord must be very beautiful. It must be very great, and well-known in all lands. So I will get things ready for it to be built." David made many things ready for it before his death.
Proverbs 12:10
A man who is right with God cares for his animal, but the sinful man is hard and has no pity.
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed His flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in His arms and carry them close to His heart. He will be gentle in leading those that are with young.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. The strong fort, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it; this was twelve miles from Dophkah: according to the Jewish chronology d, this Alush is the wilderness of Sin, where the Israelites came on the fifteenth day of the seventh month from their going out of Egypt; and they say, that in Alush the sabbath was given them, and that there they kept the first sabbath, as it is said,

and the people rested on the seventh day, Exodus 16:30.

d Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.

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. IX.

Verse Numbers 33:13. ALUSH.] Neither is this mentioned in Exodus and its situation is equally unknown.


 
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