SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:33
Así partieron del monte del SEÑOR, camino de tres días; y el arca del pacto del SEÑOR fue delante de ellos camino de tres días, buscándoles reposo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:33
Verse 33. The ark-went before them] We find from ver. 21 that the ark was carried by the Kohathites in the center of the army; but as the army never moved till the cloud was taken up, it is said to go before them, i. e., to be the first to move, as without this motion the Israelites continued in their encampments.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 33. And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey , etc.], From Mount Sinai, so called, because the Lord descended upon it, and gave the law from it; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, “from the mount on which the glory of the Lord (or of his Shechinah or divine Majesty) was revealed.” This they left, after they had been nearly twelve months about it, and travelled three days’ journey from it before the cloud rested, so as to abide, otherwise is stopped no doubt to give them time to eat their food, and take sleep and rest. The Targum of Jonathan expressly says, they went thirty six miles on that day; but, according to Bunting f105 , Taberah or Kibrothhattaavah, to which the children of Israel first came, and where they abode a month, was but eight miles from Sinai; wherefore the three days’ journey were not successively one after another, but the first day’s journey was to Taberah, where they continued a month; the second day’s journey was to Hazeroth, where they stayed seven days; and the third day’s journey was to the wilderness of Paran, and there the cloud rested, ( Numbers 10:12); and there was their resting place, for there they continued long, from whence the spies were sent to the good land, and whither they returned after forty days, ( Numbers 13:1-3,25); and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them ; the ark being carried by the Kohathites, must proceed in the middle of the camps, after the camps of Judah and Reuben, and before the camps of Ephraim and Dan, according to the order of the marches of the children of Israel, ( Numbers 10:21); wherefore Aben Ezra thinks, that this three days’ journey was different from all their other journeys; and that in this the ark went before them, which in other journeys was carried in the midst of them; yet others think it may be said to go before, though in the middle; just as a general of an army may be said to go before, and lead his army, though he is not directly in the front of it; so the cloud being always over the ark, directing the march, it may be said to go before and point out a convenient place to rest in; for searching cannot be properly ascribed to the ark, nor even to the Lord himself, and can only signify pointing out or discovering a proper place to take up their abode in: this ark of the covenant, so called because the covenant or law was laid up in it, was a type of Christ the end of the law for righteousness, and who is the forerunner of his people, is gone before them to prepare a place for them; and the three days’ journey may have respect to his resurrection from the dead on the third day for their justification, which is the foundation of their rest, peace, and joy.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 33-36 - Their going out and coming in, gives an example to us to begin and en every day's journey and every day's work with prayer. Here is Moses' prayer when the ark set forward, "Rise up, and let thine enemies be scattered." There are those in the world who are enemies to God an haters of him; secret and open enemies; enemies to his truths, his laws, his ordinances, his people. But for the scattering and defeatin of God's enemies, there needs no more than God's arising. Observe als the prayer of Moses when the ark rested, that God would cause his people to rest. The welfare and happiness of the Israel of God, consis in the continual presence of God among them. Their safety is not in their numbers, but in the favour of God, and his gracious return to them, and resting with them. Upon this account, Happy art thou, Israel! who is like unto thee, O people! God will go before them, to find them resting-places by the way. His promise is, and their prayer are, that he will never leave them nor forsake them __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויסעו 5265 מהר 2022 יהוה 3068 דרך 1870 שׁלשׁת 7969 ימים 3117 וארון 727 ברית 1285 יהוה 3068 נסע 5265 לפניהם 6440 דרך 1870 שׁלשׁת 7969 ימים 3117 לתור 8446 להם מנוחה׃ 4496
