Numbers 20:1 (BSB)

In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

From Numbers 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 20:1

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 20:1: 1. Then came the children of Israel. In the twenty-third chapter of this book many intermediate stations are mentioned, which are not here referred to: perhaps because, from the time that God compelled them to draw back, they had made no advance for thirty whole years, but had wandered about by circuitous paths.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 20:1-13: After thirty-eight years' tedious marches, or rather tedious rests, in the wilderness, backward towards the Red Sea, the armies of Israel now at length set their faces towards Canaan again, and had come not far off from the place where they were when, by the righteous sentence of divine Justice, they were made to begin their wanderings.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 20:1: Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,.... Not immediately after the transaction of the above things, recorded in the preceding chapters; as the sending of the spies into the land of Canaan, and their report of it; the business of Korah, and the giving of several laws respecting the priesthood, and the purification of the people; but thirty eight years after: nor...
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 20:1: Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. (a) This was forty years after their departure from Egypt. (b) Moses and Aaron's sister.