properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
Iim
מֵעִיִּ֑יםme.'i.Yim
H5864
Ijim · preposition + proper noun, a place name
pitched
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nu
H2583
properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
Dibon-gad
בְּדִיבֹ֥ןbe.di.Von
H1769
Dibon · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 33:19
Rimmon-parez, or Rimmon--a city of Judah and Simeon (Jos 15:32); Libnah, so called from its white poplars (Jos 10:29), or, as some think, a white hill between Kadesh and Gaza (Jos 10:29); Rissah (El-arish); mount Shapher (Cassius); Moseroth, adjacent to mount Hor, in Wady Mousa. Ezion-geber, near Akaba, a seaport on the western shore of the Elanitic gulf; Wilderness of Zin, on the east side of the peninsula of Sinai; Punon, in the rocky ravines of mount Hor and famous for the mines and quarries in its vicinity as well as for its fruit trees, now Tafyle, on the border of Edom; Abarim, a ridge of rugged hills northwest of the Arnon--the part called Nebo was one of its highest peaks--opposite J…
And they departed from Ijim, and pitched in Dibongad. Sixteen miles from Ijim; the remove from whence is said to be to the valley of Zared, Numbers 21:12 in which Dibongad was, so called perhaps because rebuilt by Gad afterwards.
Numbers 33:45.and we went over the brook Zered; which was fordable, or perhaps at this time dried up.
John Calvin on Numbers 33:40-51
Numbers 33:40
40. And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
40. Audivit autem Chananaeus rex Arad (is vero habitabat in meridie in terra Chanaan) quum ingrederentur filii Israel.
40. And king Arad the Canaanite. Although Moses gives no account of a battle, yet he briefly revives the recollection of the previous history; as much as to say, that in this part of their journey the Israelites at length met with their enemy, since they then began to fight with one of the nations of Canaan. In a word, the meaning is, that this was the beginning of their warfare, when the land which God had promised them as an inhe…
As the Israelites had ended their wanderings through the desert, when they arrived in the steppes of Moab by the Jordan opposite to Jericho (Num 22:1), and as they began to take possession when the conquered land beyond Jordan was portioned out (ch. 32), the history of the desert wandering closes with a list of the stations which they had left behind them. This list was written out by Moses "at the command of Jehovah" (Num 33:2), as a permanent memorial for after ages, as every station which Israel left behind on the journey from Egypt to Canaan "through the great and terrible desert," was a memorial of the grace and faithfulness with which the Lord led His people safely "in the desert land…
The Church Fathers
Thence again one comes to Dibon-gad, which is said to signify "a beehive of temptations." O the wondrous caution of the divine providence! Behold, now the traveler here of the heavenly journey, next to the highest perfection through the succession of virtues, and yet trials are not lacking to him. But I hear of a new kind of trials: "a beehive," he says, "of temptations." The bee is a praiseworthy animal set down in the Scriptures, from whose labors both kings and common people make use of them for health; which is rightly taken of the words of the prophets and of the Apostles and of all who wrote the sacred volumes; and I think this "beehive," that is, the whole number of the divine Scriptures, is most worthily understood. There is, therefore, for those who tend toward perfection, even in this beehive, that is, in the prophetic and apostolic words, no small temptation. Do you wish to see that there is in these no slight temptation? In this beehive I find it written: "See," he says, "lest, looking upon the sun and the moon, you adore them, which the Lord your God has apportioned to the nations." You see what temptation proceeds from this beehive? And again when it says: "You shall not curse the gods." And again in the beehive of the new testament, where we read: "Why do you wish to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you?" And again in other places the Lord himself says: "Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand, lest perhaps they be converted, and I heal them." But also when the Apostle says: "In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers" — and many trials of this sort you will find in this divine beehive, to which it is necessary that each of the saints should come, so that even through these it may be recognized how perfectly and piously he thinks concerning God.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Dibon — Pining; wasting. (1.) A city in Moab (Num. 21:30); called also Dibon-gad (33:45), because it was built by Gad and Dimon (Isa. 15:9). It has been identified with the modern Diban, about 3 miles north…
Iim — Ruins. (1.) A city in the south of Judah (Josh. 15:29). (2.) One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 33:45).
Wandering — Of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Num. 14:26-35). They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · TO ZARED OR DIBON-GAD — TO ZARED OR DIBON-GAD
Dibon · .Israelites en — .Israelites en
Iim · 1. An en — 1. An en
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Good candidates for the locations of most of these sites are found east of the Jordan between the southern Arabah and the plains of Moab, opposite Jericho.
Rashi on Numbers 33:44
בעיי העברים IN IJE-ABARIM — The word denotes waste places and heaps of rubbish, the same as, (Micah 1:6): “[will make Samaria] into a heap (עי) in the field”; (Psalms 79:1): “They have made Jerusalem into heaps (עיים)” (cf. Rashi on Numbers 21:11).
