SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:16
Y después movió el pueblo de Hazerot, y asentaron el campamento en el desierto de Parán.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 12:16
Verse 16. The wilderness of Paran.] This could not be the same Paran with that mentioned Deut. i. 1, for that was on the borders of the promised land, see the note on Deut. i. 1, 2; they were long near the borders of Canaan, and might have speedily entered into it, had it not been for their provocations and iniquities. They spent thirty-eight years in a journey which might have been accomplished in a few weeks! How many through their unfaithfulness have been many years in gaining that for which, in the ordinary procedure of Divine grace, a few days had been sufficient! How much ground may a man lose in the Divine life by one act of unfaithfulness or transgression! Israel wandered in the wilderness because Israel despised the pleasant land, and did not give credence to the word of the Lord. They would have a golden calf, and they had nothing but tribulation and wo in return.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And afterwards the people removed from Hazeroth , etc.] After seven days, where they had been so long at least; the cloud being returned to the tabernacle, and having been taken up, which was the signal for motion, the camps of Israel, in their order, removed and marched forward: and pitched in the wilderness of Paran ; at a place in it called Rithmah, ( Numbers 33:18); which, according to Bunting f151 , was eight miles from Hazeroth, near to which was another place called Kadesh, or else this was another name of Rithmah, (see Numbers 13:3,26); and now the Israelites were very near the land of promise, and from hence they sent spies to make their observations on it, and bring a report of it; and had it not been for their ill conduct in that affair, in all probability would have been quickly in it, but on that account were kept out thirty eight years longer: it was on the twenty eighth or twenty ninth of the month Sivan the Israelites came to this place, according to the Jewish writers f152 , which month answers part of our May and part of June.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-16 - The cloud departed, and Miriam became leprous. When God goes, evi comes: expect no good when God departs. Her foul tongue, as Bishop Hal says, was justly punished with a foul face. Aaron, as priest, was judg of the leprosy. He could not pronounce her leprous without trembling knowing himself to be equally guilty. But if she was thus punished for speaking against Moses, what will become of those who sin agains Christ? Aaron, who joined his sister in speaking against Moses, i forced for himself and his sister, to beseech him, and to speak highl of him whom he had so lately blamed. Those who trample upon the saint and servants of God, will one day be glad to make court to them. It is well when rebukes produce confession of sin and repentance. Suc offenders, though corrected and disgraced, shall be pardoned. Mose made it appear, that he forgave the injury done him. To this pattern of Moses, and that of our Saviour, who said, "Father, forgive them," we must conform. A reason is given for Miriam's being put out of the cam for seven days; because thus she ought to accept the punishment of he sin. When under the tokens of God's displeasure for sin, it becomes u to take shame to ourselves. This hindered the people's progress in their march forward towards Canaan. Many things oppose us, but nothin so hinders us in the way to heaven, as sin __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואחר 310 נסעו 5265 העם 5971 מחצרות 2698 ויחנו 2583 במדבר 4057 פארן׃ 6290
