Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 33

1 THese are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt, with their armies , under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

(i. e.) In great number and exact order, as armies march, and they did, Exod. 12. 37, 38, and 13. 18.

2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD : and these are their journeys, according to their goings out.

Who would have this done, partly to evince the truth of the history, partly to preserve the remembrance of Gods glorious and miraculous works both of judgment and mercy towards his people, and thereby to confirm their faith in their present difficult undertaking.

3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month: on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians .

Whither they all repaired by Moses his order from all parts of the land.

See Exod. 14. 8. Numb. 15. 30.

Marginal references: Exod. 12. 37.; Exod. 14. 8.

4 (For the Egyptians buried all their first-born, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgment.)

Either 1. their princes and rulers, who are sometimes called gods in Scripture; and so this is added by way of amplification, God flew their first-born, not onely of the meaner sort, but even of their King and princes. Or 2. their falsegods, to wit, those beasts, which the brutish Egyptians worshipped as Gods, which were killed with the rest, for the first-born both of men and beasts were then killed, Exod. 13. 15. See more on Exod. 12. 12. and 18. 11.

Marginal references: Exod. 12. [illegible: 1 word] ▪; Exod. 12. [illegible: 1 word] ▪ & 18. 11. Isa. 21. 9. & 19. 1.

10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red-sea .

(i. e.) By another part of that Sea which they passed over.

18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah .

A place in the wilderness of Paran, near Kadesh-barnea.

31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan .

Called more [illegible: 1 word] meroth-bene-jaacan, Deut. 10. [illegible: 1+ letters].

32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad .

Called Gudgodah, as Iotbathah is called Iotbath, Deut. 10. 7.

Marginal references: See Gen. 36. 27. Deut. 10. 6. 1 Chro. 1. 42.; Deut. 10. 7.

35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber .

A place upon the Red-sea, as appears from 1 King. 9. 26. and 22. 48.

45 And they departed from Iim , and pitched in Dibon-gad .

Rather, Ijim i. e. the heaps, as the word signifies, even the heaps of Abarim, last mentioned, the Hebrew word is the same with Ije, ver. 44. onely there it is in the construed, and here in the absolute, form.

So called partly by way of distinction of this from another Dibon, in the portion of Reuben, Ios. 13. 17. and partly because it was rebuilt by the tribe of Gad.

Marginal references: chap. 21. 11.

47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo .

Of which see Numb. 27. 12. Deut. 32. 49, 50. and 34. 1.

49 And they pitched by Jordan from Beth-jesimoth, even unto Abel-Shittim , in the plains of Moab.

Called Sittim, Numb. 25. 1. and here Abel-sittim, for the grievous mourning which there was both for the hainous crimes committed and horrible judgments their inflicted.

Marginal references: Or, the plain of Shittim.; chap. 25. 1.

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures , and destroy all their molten images , and quite pluck down all their high places .

Not by banishing, but by destroying, them, as it is explained, Deut. 7. 1, 2. and elsewhere.

Which seem to have been stones curiously ingraven and set up for worship. See Deut. 16. 22.

See Exod. 23. 24, 32. Deut. 7. 5.

(i. e.) by a Metonymy, the Chapp[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ Altars, Groves, or other means of wor[illegible: 1+ letters]hip there set up▪ [illegible: 1+ letters]or [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]ills themselves could not be destroyed by them. See on Deut. [illegible: 1+ letters]2. 2.

Marginal references: Deut. 7. 2. Josh. 11. 12.; Exod. 34. 13.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them, shall be pricks in your eyes t, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

s (i. e.) Both vexatious and pernicious, for the eye is a tender part, and a wound there is very mischievous.

Marginal references: Josh. 23. 13. Judg. 2. 3.