Numbers 12:16

Num 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Ver. 16. Wilderness of Paran.] At a place called Rithmah, {Num 33:18} and Kadeshbarnea. {Num 13:3; Num 13:26}

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FROM HAZEROTH TO KADESH, Num_12:16.

16. Wilderness of Paran — Gen_12:6, note; Num_10:12, note. By comparing Num_13:26 with Deu_1:19-24, it will be seen that the place in this wilderness to which they removed was Kadesh-barnea. Gen_14:7; Jos_10:41, note. But in Num_33:18, the station after Hazeroth is Rithma, which is either the same as Kadesh or perhaps the modern Wady Abu Retemet, a wide and well-watered plain near Ain Gadis, which Rowland and other recent travelers identify with Kadesh.

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12:16 The camp in the wilderness of Paran was at Kadesh-barnea (13:26; Deut 1:19-22).

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pitched in the wilderness of Paran--The station of encampments seems to have been Rithma (Num 33:19).

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Verse 16. The wilderness of Paran.] This could not be the same Paran with that mentioned De 1:1, for that was on the borders of the promised land, see the note on De 1:1-2; they were long near the borders of Canaan, and might have speedily entered into it, had it not been for their provocations and iniquities. They spent thirty-eight years in a journey which might have been accomplished in a few weeks! How many through their unfaithfulness have been many years in gaining that for which, in the ordinary procedure of Divine grace, a few days had been sufficient! How much ground may a man lose in the Divine life by one act of unfaithfulness or transgression! Israel wandered in the wilderness because Israel despised the pleasant land, and did not give credence to the word of the Lord. They would have a golden calf, and they had nothing but tribulation and wo in return,

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(16) In the wilderness of Paran.—See Note on Num_10:12. It appears from the 26th verse of the following chapter that the encampment was at Kadesh, which has been supposed by some to be identical with Rithniah (Num_33:18).

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16. wilderness of Paran] See on Num_10:12.

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And afterwards the people removed from Hazeroth,.... After seven days, where they had been so long at least; the cloud being returned to the tabernacle, and having been taken up, which was the signal for motion, the camps of Israel, in their order, removed and marched forward:

and pitched in the wilderness of Paran; at a place in it called Rithmah, Num 33:18; which, according to Bunting (m), was eight miles from Hazeroth, near to which was another place called Kadesh, or else this was another name of Rithmah, see Num 13:3; and now the Israelites were very near the land of promise, and from hence they sent spies to make their observations on it, and bring a report of it; and had it not been for their ill conduct in that affair, in all probability would have been quickly in it, but on that account were kept out thirty eight years longer: it was on the twenty eighth or twenty ninth of the month Sivan the Israelites came to this place, according to the Jewish writers (n), which month answers part of our May and part of June.

(m) Travels, &c. p. 82. (n) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24. & Meyer. Annotat. in ib. p. 338.

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Hazeroth, where they abode, as is said, Num 11:35, for Miriam’s sake.

In the wilderness of Paran, i.e. in another part of the same wilderness, as may be gathered from Num 10:12; see also Deu 33:2. It is possible they might have removed out of one part of that wilderness into another wilderness, and then returned again into another part of it, as we know the Israelites had many strange windings and turnings in their wilderness travels. And this part was more especially called Rithmah, Num 33:18, and Kadesh-barnea, Num 13:26; Deu 1:19, which were two noted places in that part, both which seem to be comprehended within their camp, or near adjoining to it.

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In the wilderness of Paran. It is somewhat strange that this note of place should be used a second time without explanation. (see Num_10:12, Num_10:33) Probably it is intended to mark the fact that they were still within the limits of Paran, although on the very verge of their promised laud. In the list of stations given in Nu 33, it is said (verse 18), "They departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah." This is with some probability identified with the Wady Redemat, which opens front the mountain mass of the Azazimat into the singular plain of Kudes, or Kadesh, the scene of the decisive events which followed.

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Paran - That is, in another part of the same wilderness.

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Hazeroth

This is the name of a place in the desert. See how you translated it in Numbers 11:35.

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desert

Paran

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AND AFTERWARD THE PEOPLE JOURNEYED FROM HATZEROTH, AND PITCHED IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN. The reason [why Scripture mentions the wilderness] is to say that when they travelled from Hatzeroth they did not go from one wilderness to another, as they did on their first journey when they set forth from the wilderness of Sinai and pitched in the wilderness of Paran, for [now] they set forth from Hatzeroth which is in the wilderness of Paran, and pitched in another place in that very same wilderness. This [place was called] Kadesh-barnea, for [although its name is not given here], it is from there that the spies [mentioned in the next section of the Torah] were sent, as is said in another place, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and so also it is written, and we came to Kadesh-barnea; And ye came unto me every one of you, and said: Let us send men before us., Verse 22. Now Scripture does not say here: “and they journeyed from Hatzeroth, and pitched in Kadesh-barnea,” for perhaps there were many [stages in their] journey between them [i.e., these two places], and this is not now the place to mention them. However, it mentioned [that they pitched] in the wilderness of Paran, in order to inform us that this Kadesh [from where the spies were sent] is the Kadesh-barnea which is in the wilderness of Paran, not the Kadesh which is in the wilderness of Sin where the affair of the waters of Meribah, Verse 13. took place in the fortieth year [of the Israelites’ stay in the wilderness].Shelach

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