Numbers - 33:19



19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 33:19.

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And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez.
And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.
And they removed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-perez.
And they journeyed from Rithmah, and pitched in Rimmon-perez.
And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-parez.
And they journey from Rithmah, and encamp in Rimmon-Parez;
And they went on from Rithmah, and put up their tents in Rimmon-perez.
They traveled from Rithmah, and camped in Rimmon Perez.
And setting out from Rithmah, they made camp at Rimmon-perez.
Profecti vero de Rithmah, castrametati sunt in Rimmon Peres.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

Rimmon-parez - Unknown.
Stat. 16.

And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez. Six miles from Rithmah, and then from Rimmon to Libnah, which was six miles also; and from thence to Rissah, which was six miles more; and from Rissah to, Kehelathah, which was the same number of miles; and from thence to Shapher, which was six miles also; and then they came to Haradah, which was four miles from thence; the next remove was to Makheloth, which was four miles and a half from the last place; then they went to Tahath, which was four miles more; and from thence to Tarah, which also was four miles; the next place they came to was Mithcah, four miles from Tarah; and then to Hashmonah, which was eight miles more.

Rimmon-parez, or Rimmon--a city of Judah and Simeon (Joshua 15:32); Libnah, so called from its white poplars (Joshua 10:29), or, as some think, a white hill between Kadesh and Gaza (Joshua 10:29); Rissah (El-arish); mount Shapher (Cassius); Moseroth, adjacent to mount Hor, in Wady Mousa. Ezion-geber, near Akaba, a seaport on the western shore of the Elanitic gulf; Wilderness of Zin, on the east side of the peninsula of Sinai; Punon, in the rocky ravines of mount Hor and famous for the mines and quarries in its vicinity as well as for its fruit trees, now Tafyle, on the border of Edom; Abarim, a ridge of rugged hills northwest of the Arnon--the part called Nebo was one of its highest peaks--opposite Jericho. (See on Deuteronomy 10:6).

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