Num 33:49 | KingComments | STEP | This list of the places and events that have occurred during the trek shows the forty years of the wilderness journey. Places are mentioned that we only encounter in this list. Other places call events to the mind that we find recorded in Exodus or Numbers. So it is with our lives. Some events are clear to our minds, others we don’t remember. But God has recorded the overview of our whole life ( ). No fragment of the film of our lives has been cut away. We will have it before us in its entirety when our lives will be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ ( ). Here an outline with places where something happened and where they are mentioned: Rameses – Judgment on Egypt and exodus from Egypt – Succoth – Etham – Located on the edge of the wilderness – Pi-hahiroth – Through the Red Sea and three-day trips through the wilderness of Etham – Marah – Elim – 12 water sources and 70 palm trees – Wilderness of Sin – Rephidim – No water to drink for the people – Wilderness of Sinai– Kibroth-hattaavah – Hazeroth – Wilderness of Zin – Mount Hor – Aaron dies, 123 years, 40 years after the exodus; Canaanite hears of approaching Israelites – Oboth – Iye-abarim or ruins of Abarim – Mountains of Abarim – Plains of Moab

‏ Numbers 33:49

Places and Events During the Journey

This list of the places and events that have occurred during the trek shows the forty years of the wilderness journey. Places are mentioned that we only encounter in this list. Other places call events to the mind that we find recorded in Exodus or Numbers.

So it is with our lives. Some events are clear to our minds, others we don’t remember. But God has recorded the overview of our whole life (Job 31:4). No fragment of the film of our lives has been cut away. We will have it before us in its entirety when our lives will be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ (2Cor 5:10).

Here an outline with places where something happened and where they are mentioned:

Rameses – Judgment on Egypt and exodus from Egypt – Exo 12:37

Succoth – Exo 12:37

Etham – Located on the edge of the wilderness – Exo 13:20

Pi-hahiroth – Through the Red Sea and three-day trips through the wilderness of Etham – Exo 14:2

Marah – Exo 15:23

Elim – 12 water sources and 70 palm trees – Exo 15:27

Wilderness of Sin – Exo 16:1

Rephidim – No water to drink for the people – Exo 17:1

Wilderness of Sinai– Exo 19:1

Kibroth-hattaavah – Num 11:34

Hazeroth – Num 11:35

Wilderness of Zin – Num 20:1

Mount Hor – Aaron dies, 123 years, 40 years after the exodus; Canaanite hears of approaching Israelites – Num 20:22 ; 24-29

Oboth – Num 21:10

Iye-abarim or ruins of Abarim – Num 21:11

Mountains of Abarim – Num 27:12

Plains of Moab – from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim – Num 22:1