Numbers 33:16

16 They departed from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.^[a]

Numbers 33:16 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:16

And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
Kibrothhattaavah.
] Eight miles from the desert of Sinai; here the people lusted after flesh, and murmured, which, though given them, a pestilence came and destroyed many of them, and here they were buried, whence the place was so called, which signifies the "graves of lust", i.e. of those that lusted: no mention is made of Taberah, either because it was the same with Kibroth, or near it; or, as Aben Ezra on ( Deuteronomy 9:22 ) says, they encamped there but one day, and so is not mentioned in the journeys, though it was one of the three they journeyed from Mount Sinai to Kibrothhattaavah, see ( Numbers 11:1-3 Numbers 11:34 Numbers 11:35 ) .

Numbers 33:16 In-Context

14 They departed from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

15 They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.

16 They departed from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

17 They departed from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

18 They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 11:34-35; Dt 9:22