Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 33:5
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
HERE FOLLOW THE FORTY-TWO STATIONS
STATION I.
Verse 5. And pitched in SUCCOTH.] This name signifies booths or tents, and probably refers to no town or village, but simply designates the place where they pitched their tents for the first time after their departure from Rameses.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
5. pitched in Succoththat is,”booths”a place of no note except as a temporary haltingplace, at Birketel-Hadji, the Pilgrim’s Pool [CALMET].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses,…. Or Pelusium, as the same Targum again:
and pitched in Succoth: where, as the same paraphrase says, they were covered with the clouds of glory, suggesting that to be the reason of its name; but that was rather because of the booths or tents the Israelites erected, pitched, and dwelt in, during their abode there: this, according to Bunting b, was eight miles from Rameses; according to whose computation, for want of a better guide, the distances of the several stations from each other will be given.
b Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 81.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
5, 6. Succoth, Etham Exo 13:20, note. Succoth was probably a resting-place of caravans or a military station about fifteen miles due east of Rameses. It has left no trace.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
I connect into one and the same point of view, the whole forty-two stages of Israel, because that one and the same general observations meet us through everyone of them. Let the Reader, however, remark with me the shortness of their stages; their continual movements; their still removing, however, wherever they went, in a wilderness-state; their retrograde motions backward and forward; and yet all the while under the direction of the pillar of cloud, and protected by the pillar of fire: and when the Reader hath made his own observations on the history of Israel, let him beg grace from the LORD to discover how much the stages of Israel resemble the present stages of the LORD’S Israel, in all their spiritual journeyings. Are not the movements of the faithful continually in this present life, from one state to another; and sweet the streams of that river they meet with by the way, which makes glad the city of our GOD? And yet whenever they move, is it not like Israel of old, from one part of the wilderness to another? The best is but a wilderness state, and full of wilderness dispensations. But, blessed be a covenant GOD in JESUS, amidst all the ups and downs, the backward and forward goings of his people, GOD the HOLY GHOST is still, as the pillar of cloud, guiding them on; and the LORD JESUS, as the pillar of fire, protecting and surrounding them with his love. Yes, dearest LORD, wherever, or however, the path of thy people may be, in the way thou leadest them, it is still the right way to the city of habitation. Psa 107:7 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
removed: Exo 12:37
Rameses: This appears to have been the capital of the land of Goshen, and the rendezvous of the Israelites. It is placed by Jerome in the extremity of Egypt, in the Arsenoitic nome.
Reciprocal: Exo 13:20 – General