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They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.
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They set out from Almon-diblathaim
Almon-diblathaim is mentioned as one of the Israelite encampments during their wilderness journey. This location is part of the final stages of their journey before entering the Promised Land. The name itself suggests a place associated with fig cakes, indicating a possible area of agricultural activity or a place known for such produce. This stage of the journey reflects the Israelites' transition from wandering to preparing to enter Canaan, symbolizing a move from dependence on God’s miraculous provision to a life of cultivation and settlement.

and camped in the mountains of Abarim
The mountains of Abarim are a range east of the Jordan River, offering a vantage point over the land of Canaan. This location is significant as it represents the threshold of the Promised Land. The Abarim range is historically and theologically important as it is associated with Moses' final days. It is here that Moses would view the land he would not enter, highlighting themes of promise and fulfillment, as well as the consequences of disobedience. The mountains serve as a place of reflection and anticipation for the Israelites.

facing Nebo
Mount Nebo is a peak within the Abarim range and holds great significance as the place where Moses viewed the Promised Land before his death. It is a site of prophetic fulfillment, as God had promised Moses he would see the land, though he would not enter it. This moment underscores the faithfulness of God in keeping His promises, even when human leaders fall short. Mount Nebo is also a type of Christ, as Moses, a mediator of the Old Covenant, points to Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant, who leads His people into the ultimate Promised Land. The view from Nebo symbolizes hope and the future inheritance of God’s people.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Almon-diblathaim
A location in the wilderness journey of the Israelites. The name suggests a place associated with fig cakes, indicating a possible area of sustenance or provision.

2. Mountains of Abarim
A mountain range east of the Jordan River, significant as a place where Moses viewed the Promised Land before his death. It represents a place of transition and vision.

3. Nebo
A specific peak within the Abarim range. It is notably the place where Moses was granted a view of Canaan and where he died. It symbolizes the culmination of Moses' leadership and the threshold of the Israelites' entry into the Promised Land.
Teaching Points
Faithfulness in Transition
The journey to the mountains of Abarim and Mount Nebo highlights God's faithfulness in guiding His people through transitions. As believers, we can trust God during times of change, knowing He has a plan and purpose.

Vision and Promise
Just as Moses was granted a vision of the Promised Land, we are encouraged to seek God's vision for our lives. This involves trusting His promises and being patient for their fulfillment.

Leadership and Legacy
Moses' journey to Nebo marks the end of his leadership. It reminds us of the importance of leaving a godly legacy and preparing others to continue the work God has started through us.

Obedience and Trust
The Israelites' journey required obedience and trust in God's guidance. In our lives, we are called to follow God's direction, even when the path is uncertain.
Bible Study Questions
1. What does the journey from Almon-diblathaim to the mountains of Abarim teach us about trusting God during transitions in our lives?

2. How can the account of Moses viewing the Promised Land from Mount Nebo inspire us to seek God's vision for our future?

3. In what ways can we ensure that we are leaving a godly legacy for those who come after us, as Moses did for the Israelites?

4. How does the Israelites' obedience in their journey through the wilderness challenge us to trust and obey God in our own life's journey?

5. Reflect on a time when you experienced a significant transition. How did your faith in God's promises help you navigate that period? How can you apply this experience to future transitions?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Deuteronomy 32:49-50
This passage describes God instructing Moses to go up to Mount Nebo to view the Promised Land, connecting the location to Moses' final moments and God's faithfulness in showing him the land promised to the patriarchs.

Deuteronomy 34:1-5
These verses recount Moses' ascent to Mount Nebo and his death there, emphasizing the fulfillment of God's promise and the transition of leadership to Joshua.

Numbers 21:11-20
This earlier passage in Numbers details the Israelites' journey through the wilderness, including their encampments, providing context for their movement towards the Promised Land.
Sermons
The Journeyings of the IsraelitesD. Young Numbers 33:1-49
People
Aaron, Abel, Arad, Egyptians, Gad, Geber, Israelites, Moses, Perez, Tahath, Terah, Zephon
Places
0, Abarim, Abel-shittim, Abronah, Almon-diblathaim, Alush, Arad, Baal-zephon, Bene-jaakan, Beth-jeshimoth, Canaan, Dibon-gad, Dophkah, Edom, Egypt, Elim, Etham, Ezion-geber, Hahiroth, Haradah, Hashmonah, Hazeroth, Hor-haggidgad, Iye-abarim, Iyim, Jericho, Jordan River, Jotbathah, Kadesh-barnea, Kehelathah, Kibroth-hattaavah, Libnah, Makheloth, Marah, Migdol, Mithkah, Moab, Moseroth, Mount Hor, Mount Shepher, Nebo, Negev, Oboth, Pi-hahiroth, Punon, Rameses, Red Sea, Rephidim, Rimmon-perez, Rissah, Rithmah, Sinai, Succoth, Tahath, Terah, Zalmonah, Zin
Topics
Abarim, Ab'arim, Almon, Almondiblathaim, Almon-diblathaim, Al'mon-diblatha'im, Camped, Diblathaim, Encamp, Encamped, Front, Journey, Journeyed, Mountains, Nebo, Pitched, Removed, Tents, Traveled
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Numbers 33:3-48

     7222   exodus, events of

Numbers 33:47-48

     4254   mountains

Library
Some Miscellaneous Matters Belonging to the Country About Jericho.
Let us begin from the last encampings of Israel beyond Jordan. Numbers 33:49: "They encamped near Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth unto Abel-shittim."--"From Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim were twelve miles." It is a most received opinion among the Jews, that the tents of the Israelites in the wilderness contained a square of twelve miles. So the Targum of Jonathan, upon Number 2:2; "The encamping of Israel was twelve miles in length, and twelve miles in breadth." And the Gemarists say, "It is forbidden …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Arbel. Shezor. Tarnegola the Upper.
"Arbel a city of Galilee."--There is mention of it in Hosea 10:14. But there are authors which do very differently interpret that place, viz. the Chaldee paraphrast, R. Solomon, Kimchi: consult them. It was between Zippor and Tiberias. Hence Nittai the Arbelite, who was president with Josua Ben Perahiah. The valley of Arbel is mentioned by the Talmudists. So also "The Arbelite Bushel." "Near Zephath in Upper Galilee was a town named Shezor, whence was R. Simeon Shezori: there he was buried. There …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Christ the Water of Life.
"Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life" (John iv. 13, 14). "Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John vii. 37). "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank …
Frank G. Allen—Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
A BRIEF AND FAITHFUL RELATION OF THE EXCEEDING MERCY OF GOD IN CHRIST TO HIS POOR SERVANT, JOHN BUNYAN; WHEREIN IS PARTICULARLY SHOWED THE MANNER OF HIS CONVERSION, HIS SIGHT AND TROUBLE FOR SIN, HIS DREADFUL TEMPTATIONS, ALSO HOW HE DESPAIRED OF GOD'S MERCY, AND HOW THE LORD AT LENGTH THROUGH CHRIST DID DELIVER HIM FROM ALL THE GUILT AND TERROR THAT LAY UPON HIM. Whereunto is added a brief relation of his call to the work of the ministry, of his temptations therein, as also what he hath met with …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Kadesh. Rekam, and that Double. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done.
The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. In the Chaldee, it is 'Rekam': in the Syriac, 'Rekem': in the Arabic, 'Rakim'... There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. I. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. II. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

The Section Chap. I. -iii.
The question which here above all engages our attention, and requires to be answered, is this: Whether that which is reported in these chapters did, or did not, actually and outwardly take place. The history of the inquiries connected with this question is found most fully in Marckius's "Diatribe de uxore fornicationum," Leyden, 1696, reprinted in the Commentary on the Minor Prophets by the same author. The various views may be divided into three classes. 1. It is maintained by very many interpreters, …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Peaceable Principles and True: Or, a Brief Answer to Mr. D'Anver's and Mr. Paul's Books against My Confession of Faith, and Differences in Judgment About Baptism no Bar to Communion.
WHEREIN THEIR SCRIPTURELESS NOTIONS ARE OVERTHROWN, AND MY PEACEABLE PRINCIPLES STILL MAINTAINED. 'Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?'--Psalm 58:1 SIR, I have received and considered your short reply to my differences in judgment about water baptism no bar to communion; and observe, that you touch not the argument at all: but rather labour what you can, and beyond what you ought, to throw odiums upon your brother for reproving you for your error, …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

In Death and after Death
A sadder picture could scarcely be drawn than that of the dying Rabbi Jochanan ben Saccai, that "light of Israel" immediately before and after the destruction of the Temple, and for two years the president of the Sanhedrim. We read in the Talmud (Ber. 28 b) that, when his disciples came to see him on his death-bed, he burst into tears. To their astonished inquiry why he, "the light of Israel, the right pillar of the Temple, and its mighty hammer," betrayed such signs of fear, he replied: "If I were …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life

Numbers
Like the last part of Exodus, and the whole of Leviticus, the first part of Numbers, i.-x. 28--so called,[1] rather inappropriately, from the census in i., iii., (iv.), xxvi.--is unmistakably priestly in its interests and language. Beginning with a census of the men of war (i.) and the order of the camp (ii.), it devotes specific attention to the Levites, their numbers and duties (iii., iv.). Then follow laws for the exclusion of the unclean, v. 1-4, for determining the manner and amount of restitution …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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