Num 20:1, 27:14, 33:36, 34:3-4, Deu 32:51, Jos 15:1 | TSK | STEP | The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies. They murmur for want of water. Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah. Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him. At mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies. An. Ex. Is. 40. Then.This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare ch. 33:38, with ver. 28 of this chap. and De 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (ch. 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years. into. Kadesh.This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See ch. 34:3, 4. Jos 15:1, 3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, ch. 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel. Miriam.

Numbers 20:1

1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies.

2 They murmur for want of water.

7 Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah.

14 Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him.

22 At mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies.

An. Ex. Is. 40. Then.This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare ch. 33:38, with ver. 28 of this chap. and De 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (ch. 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years.

De 1:22,23; 2:14

into.

13:21; 27:14; 33:36; De 32:51

Kadesh.This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See ch. 34:3, 4. Jos 15:1, 3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, ch. 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel.

16; Ps 29:8

Miriam.

12:1,10,15; 26:59; Ex 2:4,7; 15:20; Mic 6:4

Numbers 27:14

ye rebelled.

20:8-13; De 1:37; 32:51,52; Ps 106:32,33

Meribah.

20:1,13,24; Ex 17:7

Numbers 33:36

the wilderness of Zin.

13:21; 20:1; 27:14; De 32:51

Numbers 34:3-4

south quarter.

Ex 23:31; Jos 15:1-12; Eze 47:13,19-23

salt sea eastward.The lake Asphaltites, Dead sea, or Salt sea, is, according to the most authentic accounts, about 70 miles in length, and 18 in breadth. Viewing this sea from the spot where the Jordan discharges its waters into it, it takes a south-easterly direction, visible for ten or fifteen miles, when it disappears in a curve towards the east. Its surface is generally unruffled, from the hollow of the basin in which it lies scarcely admitting the free passage necessary for a strong breeze: it is, however, for the same reason, subject to whirlwinds or squalls of short duration. The mountains on each side are apparently separated by a distance of eight miles; but the expanse of water at this point has been supposed not to exceed five or six: as it advances towards the south, it evidently increases in breadth. The acrid saltness of its waters is much greater than that of the sea; and of such specific gravity that bodies will float on it that would sink in common sea-water. It is probably on this account that few fish can live in it; though the monks of St. Saba affirmed to Dr. Shaw, that they had seen fish caught in it.

Ge 14:3; Jos 3:16; 15:2; Eze 47:8,18

Akrabbim.

Jos 15:3; Jud 1:36

Zin.

3; 13:21; 20:1; 33:36,37

Kadesh-barnea.

13:26; 32:8

Hazar-addar.

Jos 15:3,4

Deuteronomy 32:51

ye trespassed.

3:23-27; Nu 20:11,12,24; 27:14

Meribah-Kadesh. or, strife at Kadesh.

Nu 20:13,14

because ye.

Le 10:3; 1Ki 13:21-26; Isa 8:13; 1Pe 4:17

Joshua 15:1

1 The borders of the lot Judah.

13 Caleb's portion and conquest.

16 Othniel, for his valour, hath Achsah, Caleb's daughter, to wife.

18 She obtains a blessing of her father.

21 The cities of Judah.

63 The Jebusites unconquered.

A.M. 2561. B.C. 1443. An. Ex. Is. 48. This then was thelot. The geography of the sacred writings presents many difficulties, occasioned by the changes which Canaan has undergone, especially for the last 2,000 years. Many of the ancient towns and villages have had their names so totally changed that their former appellations are no longer discernible; several lie buried under their own ruins, and others have been so long destroyed that not a vestige of them remains. On these accounts it is very difficult to ascertain the precise situation of many places mentioned in these chapters; but this cannot in any measure affect the truth of the narrative.

14:2; Nu 26:55,56

even to the.

Nu 33:36,37; 34:3-5; Eze 47:19