{"id":4778,"date":"2022-09-24T00:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-339-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T00:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:49:56","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-339-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-339-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 33:9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><P>  STAT. V.<\/P> <P> <\/P> <P>  Verse <span class='bible'>9<\/span>. <I><B>And came unto<\/B><\/I><B> ELIM<\/B>] A place on the skirts of the deserts of <I>Sin<\/I>, two leagues from <I>Tor<\/I>, and nearly thirty from <I>Corondel<\/I>, a large bay on the east side of the Red Sea.  Dr. Shaw, when he visited this place, found but <I>nine<\/I> of the <I>twelve<\/I> wells mentioned in the text, and instead of 70 palm trees, he found upwards of 2,000.  <span class='bible'>See Clarke on Ex 15:27<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>9. Elim<\/B>supposed to be WadyGhurundel (see on <span class='bible'>Ex 15:27<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim<\/strong>,&#8230;. Which was eight miles from Marah:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and three score and ten palm trees, and they pitched there<\/strong>; being a convenient place of water for them,<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Verses 9-15:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The text traces Israel&#8217;s journey from Marah, to their encampment at Sinai where they received the Law, <\/strong><span class='bible'>Exo 15:27<\/span><strong> to <\/strong><span class='bible'>Exo 40:38<\/span><strong>. The second encampment by the Red Sea, and the stations at Dophkah and Alush are not mentioned in the Exodus account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 9<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Elim <\/strong> <em> Trees. <\/em> Says Dr. Ridgaway, &ldquo;There are two or three streams of water running through the valley, though nothing in the shape of wells, and I counted forty-six palm trees, and did not go down far below our camp. The precision with which this spot is identified is a helpful key to the journeyings of Israel as marking an important step, and so indicating unquestionably the direction they took after leaving the Red Sea.&rdquo; See <span class='bible'>Exo 15:27<\/span>, note. For the route from Elim to Sinai, see Exodus xvi, Introductory.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Elim. Compare Exo 15:27; Exo 16:1. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Exo 15:27<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. STAT. V. Verse 9. And came unto ELIM] A place on the skirts of the deserts of Sin, two leagues from Tor, and nearly thirty from Corondel, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-numbers-339-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 33:9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}