Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 33:20
And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
STAT. XVI.
Verse 20. LIBNAH.] The situation of this place is uncertain. A city of this name is mentioned Jos 10:29, as situated between Kadesh-barnea and Gaza.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
16-37. Kibroth-Hattaavah (“thegraves of lust,” see on Nu11:34) The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, leddown Wady Sheikh; then crossing Jebel-et-Tih, which intersected thepeninsula, they descended into Wady Zalaka, pitching successively attwo brief, though memorable, stations (De9:22); then they encamped at Hazeroth (“unwalled villages”),supposed to be at Ain-Hadera (see on Nu11:35). Kadesh, or Kadesh-barnea, is supposed to be the greatvalley of the Ghor, and the city Kadesh to have been situated on theborder of this valley [BURCKHARDT;ROBINSON]. But as thereare no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazerothand Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing thatjourney (De 1:2), it is evidentthat the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another andtotally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinaiin the second month (Num 1:11;Num 13:20), and were in Kadesh inAugust (De 1:45), and “abodemany days” in it. Then, murmuring at the report of the spies,they were commanded to return into the desert “by the way of theRed Sea.” The arrival at Kadesh, mentioned in this catalogue,corresponds to the second sojourn at that place, being thefirst month, or April (Nu20:1). Between the two visits there intervened a period ofthirty-eight years, during which they wandered hither and thitherthrough all the region of El-Tih (“wanderings”), oftenreturning to the same spots as the pastoral necessities of theirflocks required; and there is the strongest reason for believing thatthe stations named between Hazeroth (Nu33:8) and Kadesh (Nu 33:36)belong to the long interval of wandering. No certainty has yet beenattained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. Theremust have been more than are recorded; for it is probable that thoseonly are noted where they remained some time, where the tabernaclewas pitched, and where Moses and the elders encamped, the peoplebeing scattered for pasture in various directions. From Ezion-geber,for instance, which stood at the head of the gulf of Akaba, toKadesh, could not be much less than the whole length of the greatvalley of the Ghor, a distance of not less than a hundred miles,whatever might be the exact situation of Kadesh; and, of course,there must have been several intervening stations, though none arementioned. The incidents and stages of the rest of the journey to theplains of Moab are sufficiently explicit from the preceding chapters.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on Nu 33:19].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Reciprocal: Num 31:6 – the holy instruments Jos 10:29 – Libnah Jos 19:7 – Remmon Isa 37:8 – Rabshakeh