Num. 33 A relation of the marches and campings of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan, Num. 33:1–49. They are commanded to drive out the Canaanites, and destroy their pictures, molten images, and high places, and to divide the land by lot, Num. 33:50–54.

With their armies, i.e. in great number and exact order, as armies march, and they did, Ex. 12:37–38, Ex. 13:18.

Moses would have this done, partly to evince the truth of the history, partly to preserve the remembrance of God’s glorious and miraculous works both of judgment and mercy towards his people, and thereby to confirm their faith in their present difficult undertaking.

They all repaired to Rameses by Moses’s order from all parts of the land. In the sight of all the Egyptians. See Ex. 14:8, Num. 15:30.

Upon their gods; either, 1. Their princes and rulers, who are sometimes called gods in Scripture; and so this is added by way of amplification, God slew their first-born; not only of the meaner sort, but even of their king and princes. Or, 2.

Ritmah; a place in the wilderness of Paran, near Kadesh-barnea.

Called more fully Beeroth-bene-jaacan, Deut. 10:6.

Called Gudgodah, as Jotbathah is called Jotbath, Deut. 10:7.

A place upon the Red Sea, as appears from 1 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 22:48

Iim, rather Ijim, i.e. the heaps, as the word signifies, even the heaps of Abarim, last mentioned; the Hebrew word is the same with Ije, Num. 33:44, only there it is in the construed, and here in the absolute, form.

Of which see Num. 27:12, Deut. 32:49–50, Deut. 34:1

Abel-shittim; called Shittim, Num. 25:1, and here Abel-shittim, for the grievous mourning which there was both for the heinous crimes committed, and horrible judgments there inflicted.

Ye shall drive out; not by banishing, but by destroying them, as it is explained, Deut. 7:1–2, and elsewhere. Their pictures seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship. See Deut. 16:22. Molten images. See Ex. 23:24, Ex. 23:32, Deut. 7:5. High places, i.e.

Pricks in your eyes, i.e. both vexatious and pernicious, for the eye is a tender part, and a wound there is very mischievous.