George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 33:52
Pillars. Hebrew, stones placed on high "to be seen." Septuagint, "towers of the sentinels." Chaldean, "temples, where they adore their idols."
Pillars. Hebrew, stones placed on high "to be seen." Septuagint, "towers of the sentinels." Chaldean, "temples, where they adore their idols."
Verse Numbers 33:52. _YE SHALL - DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES_] משכיתם _maskiyotham_, from שחה _sachah_, to be _like_, or _resemble_, either _pictures, carved_ work, or _embroidery_, as far as these th...
The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had been already enjoined (see the marginal references); and Numbers 33:54 is substantially a repetition from Exo. 26...
10. INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE CONQUEST AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND Chapter S 33:50-34 _ 1. Command to drive out the inhabitants of the land (Numbers 33:50)_ 2. The division of the land (Number...
A COMMAND TO DESTROY THE OBJECTS OF CANAANITE WORSHIP. The substance of this is given also in Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 12:2 f. With...
DRIVE OUT. This was one of the great purposes for which the sword of Israel was raised up. Compare Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 7:2.Exodus 23:33. App-23 and App-25....
_ye shall drive out ye shall_ DISPOSSESS. The word הוֹריש in this sense is very frequent in Deut. _their figured_stones] The literal meaning of the word seems to be -something to be looked at." It den...
_Commands with regard to the settlement in Canaan_. With the exception of Numbers 33:54 the passage is derived from D. In it is enjoined the destruction of the Canaanite objects of worship, a command...
THE LORD SPAKE—YE SHALL DRIVE OUT— i.e. Entirely root out and destroy the inhabitants, for their idolatry and abominable vices, Exodus 23:33.Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 20:20. As they were shortly...
VI. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT OF CANAAN (NUMBERS 33:50-56; NUMBERS 34; NUMBERS 35; NUMBERS 36) A. ON CLEARING THE LAND ...
_THEN YE SHALL DRIVE OUT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM BEFORE YOU, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES, AND QUITE PLUCK DOWN ALL THEIR HIGH PLACES:_ Ye shall dr...
THE JOURNEYINGS OF THE ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT TO THE PLAINS OF MOAB The greater part of this chapter is occupied with a list, drawn up by Moses himself (Numbers 33:2), of the Encampments of the Israeli...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 33 THE *ISRAELITES’ JOURNEY FROM THE COUNTRY CALLED EGYPT TO THE COUNTRY CALLED MOAB – NUMBERS 33:1-49 v1-2...
AND DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES. — The word which is here rendered “pictures” denotes “imagery,” or “engraved figures.” In Leviticus 26:1 the material named is stone — “a stone of imagery,” i.e., a sto...
וְ הֹ֨ורַשְׁתֶּ֜ם אֶת ־כָּל ־יֹשְׁבֵ֤י הָ אָ֨
THE WAY AND THE LOT Numbers 33:1; Numbers 34:1 1. THE itinerary of Numbers 33:1 is one of the passages definitely ascribed to Moses. It opens with the departure from Rameses in Egypt on the morrow af...
NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY Numbers 33:38 Aaron's death must have been deeply felt by his brother Moses. During the great crisis of Hebrew history they had been so closely associated that the wrench...
An account of the wanderings of the people in the wilderness was written by Moses at the express command of God. It appears as a bare and uninteresting list of names and yet it tells the story of a pe...
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their (e) pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: (e) Which...
It is worthy our closest observation, how frequently in the sacred word, those precepts of totally destroying every vestige of the enemy, is mentioned. And the reason is told us; GOD is jealous of his...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 AND 33. There is another thing connected with this: if we have occasioned wars out of Canaan, it is also through the indispensable wars of the people of Go...
THEN YE SHALL DRIVE OUT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM BEFORE YOU,.... Not at once, but gradually; and the sense is, that they should use their utmost endeavours wholly to extirpate them: AND D...
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: Ver. 52. _Des...
_Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants_ They were to be entirely rooted out, that the Israelites might not be seduced by their abominable idolatries, Exodus 23:33; Deuteronomy 20:16. _And destroy all...
1 Two and fourtie iourneyes of the Israelites. 50 The Canaanites are to be destroyed. 1 THESE are the iourneyes of the children of Israel, which went foorth out of the land of Egypt, with their armi...
THE COMMAND TO EXTERMINATE THE INHABITANTS OF CANAAN...
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, idols hewn out of stone, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES, idols cast from metals, AND QUITE...
THE REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S JOURNEY FROM EGYPT (vs.1-49) Just as, at the judgment seat of Christ, there will be a review of all our history here on earth, so we find now a review of Israel's journey from...
50-56 Now that they were to pass over Jordan, they were entering again into temptation to follow idols; and they are threatened that, if they spared either the idols or the idolaters, their sin would...
YE SHALL DRIVE OUT; not by banishing, but by destroying them, as it is explained, DEUTERONOMY 7:1,2, and elsewhere. _Their pictures_ seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship...
, NUMBERS 34:1-29. The first of these sections gives us a wonderfully minute description of the desert wanderings of the people of God. It is impossible to read it without being deeply moved by the te...
Numbers 33:52 out H3423 (H8689) inhabitants H3427 (H8802) land H776 before H6440 destroy H6 (H8765) stones...
2). THE DIVIDING UP OF THE LAND THAT WAS SET BEFORE THEM (NUMBERS 33:50 TO NUMBERS 34:29). Having arrived at the plains of Moab with the land visible over the Jordan, a preliminary indication of what...
CONTENTS: Summary of the journey from Egypt to Jordan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: It is good for believers to preserve in writing an account of the providences of God concerning them...
To understand this chapter, the map must be carefully consulted; reference must also be made by the margin to the principal places. Some of them were no more than a rock, or a well; others were small...
_Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you._ THE EXPULSION OF THE CANAANITES I. The imperative command. 1. To utterly expel the inhabitants of Canaan. 2. To completely des...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 33:1__ Most of Numbers 1:1 is said to have been given to Moses by God (“The LORD spoke to Moses”;...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 33:50 Deuteronomy 1:1 and Judges 1:1 often repeat this stern warning against behaving like
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have a list of the places at which the Israelites encamped from their departure from Egypt unto their arrival at the Jordan (Numbers 33:1), and direc...
Now in chapter thirty-three you have a summary of their exodus out of Egypt. Moses sort of wrote down all of the places where they had stopped as they made this journey from Egypt to the Promised Land...
Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 12:31;...
Drive out — Not by banishing, but by destroying them. Pictures — Which seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship. High Places — Chapels, altars, groves, or other means of wor...