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Verse	Translation	Text
Nu 33:16	Strong Concordance	And they removed [05265] from the desert [04057] of Sinai [05514], and pitched [02583] at Kibrothhattaavah [06914].
	King James	And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
FROM SINAI TO KADESH AND PLAINS OF MOAB. (Num. 33:16-56) Kibroth-Hattaavah ("the graves of lust," see on Num 11:34) --The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, led down Wady Sheikh; then crossing Jebel-et-Tih, which intersected the peninsula, they descended into Wady Zalaka, pitching successively at two brief, though memorable, stations (Deu 9:22); then they encamped at Hazeroth ("unwalled villages"), supposed to be at Ain-Hadera (see on Num 11:35). Kadesh, or Kadesh-barnea, is supposed to be the great valley of the Ghor, and the city Kadesh to have been situated on the border of this valley [BURCKHARDT; ROBINSON]. But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (Deu 1:2), it is evident that the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another and totally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinai in the second month (Num 1:11; Num 13:20), and were in Kadesh in August (Deu 1:45), and "abode many days" in it. Then, murmuring at the report of the spies, they were commanded to return into the desert "by the way of the Red Sea." The arrival at Kadesh, mentioned in this catalogue, corresponds to the second sojourn at that place, being the first month, or April (Num 20:1). Between the two visits there intervened a period of thirty-eight years, during which they wandered hither and thither through all the region of El-Tih ("wanderings"), often returning to the same spots as the pastoral necessities of their flocks required; and there is the strongest reason for believing that the stations named between Hazeroth (Num 33:8) and Kadesh (Num 33:36) belong to the long interval of wandering. No certainty has yet been attained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. There must have been more than are recorded; for it is probable that those only are noted where they remained some time, where the tabernacle was pitched, and where Moses and the elders encamped, the people being scattered for pasture in various directions. From Ezion-geber, for instance, which stood at the head of the gulf of Akaba, to Kadesh, could not be much less than the whole length of the great valley 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 are mentioned. The incidents and stages of the rest of the journey to the plains of Moab are sufficiently explicit from the preceding chapters.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

FROM SINAI TO KADESH AND PLAINS OF MOAB. (Num. 33:16-56)

Kibroth-Hattaavah ("the graves of lust," see on Num 11:34) --The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, led down Wady Sheikh; then crossing Jebel-et-Tih, which intersected the peninsula, they descended into Wady Zalaka, pitching successively at two brief, though memorable, stations (Deu 9:22); then they encamped at Hazeroth ("unwalled villages"), supposed to be at Ain-Hadera (see on Num 11:35). Kadesh, or Kadesh-barnea, is supposed to be the great valley of the Ghor, and the city Kadesh to have been situated on the border of this valley [BURCKHARDT; ROBINSON]. But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (Deu 1:2), it is evident that the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another and totally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinai in the second month (Num 1:11; Num 13:20), and were in Kadesh in August (Deu 1:45), and "abode many days" in it. Then, murmuring at the report of the spies, they were commanded to return into the desert "by the way of the Red Sea." The arrival at Kadesh, mentioned in this catalogue, corresponds to the second sojourn at that place, being the first month, or April (Num 20:1). Between the two visits there intervened a period of thirty-eight years, during which they wandered hither and thither through all the region of El-Tih ("wanderings"), often returning to the same spots as the pastoral necessities of their flocks required; and there is the strongest reason for believing that the stations named between Hazeroth (Num 33:8) and Kadesh (Num 33:36) belong to the long interval of wandering. No certainty has yet been attained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. There must have been more than are recorded; for it is probable that those only are noted where they remained some time, where the tabernacle was pitched, and where Moses and the elders encamped, the people being scattered for pasture in various directions. From Ezion-geber, for instance, which stood at the head of the gulf of Akaba, to Kadesh, could not be much less than the whole length of the great valley 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 are mentioned. The incidents and stages of the rest of the journey to the plains of Moab are sufficiently explicit from the preceding chapters.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Kibroth-hattaavah That is, the graves of lust.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Kibroth-hattaavah - No city, village, etc., but a place in the open desert, which had its name from the plague that fell upon the Israelites, through their murmuring against God, and their inordinate desire of flesh. See on Numbers 11 (note). But it appears that the Israelites had traveled three days' journey in order to reach this place, Num 10:33, and commentators suppose there must have been other stations which are not laid down here, probably because the places were not remarkable. Stat. 13.

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³⁶ And they removed [05265] from Eziongaber [06100], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790], which is Kadesh [06946].

⁸ And they departed [05265] from before [06440] Pihahiroth [06367], and passed through [05674] the midst [08432] of the sea [03220] into the wilderness [04057], and went [03212] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870] in the wilderness [04057] of Etham [0864], and pitched [02583] in Marah [04785].

¹ Then came [0935] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], even the whole congregation [05712], into the desert [04057] of Zin [06790] in the first [07223] month [02320]: and the people [05971] abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946]; and Miriam [04813] died [04191] there, and was buried [06912] there.

⁴⁵ And ye returned [07725] and wept [01058] before [06440] the LORD [03068]; but the LORD [03068] would not hearken [08085] to your voice [06963], nor give ear [0238] unto you.

²⁰ And what the land [0776] is, whether it be fat [08082] or lean [07330], whether there be [03426] wood [06086] therein, or not. And be ye of good courage [02388], and bring [03947] of the fruit [06529] of the land [0776]. Now the time [03117] was the time [03117] of the firstripe [01061] grapes [06025].

¹¹ Of Benjamin [01144]; Abidan [027] the son [01121] of Gideoni [01441].

² (There are eleven [0259] [06240] days [03117]' journey from Horeb [02722] by the way [01870] of mount [02022] Seir [08165] unto Kadeshbarnea [06947].)

³⁵ And the people [05971] journeyed [05265] from Kibrothhattaavah [06914] unto Hazeroth [02698]; and abode at Hazeroth [02698].

²² And at Taberah [08404], and at Massah [04532], and at Kibrothhattaavah [06914], ye provoked the LORD [03068] to wrath [07107].

³⁴ And he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Kibrothhattaavah [06914]: because there they buried [06912] the people [05971] that lusted [0183].

³³ And they departed [05265] from the mount [02022] of the LORD [03068] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870]: and the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068] went [05265] before [06440] them in the three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870], to search out [08446] a resting place [04496] for them.