Hazeroth

After a plague at Kibrothhattaavah, the people “journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.” Little is told of the place itself, but it is where Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, and Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days while the people waited for her. Then they “removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.” It shows up again in Numbers 33’s list of every stopping place on the road, and in Deuteronomy 1:1. Numbers 12 is the short story that makes this camp worth knowing.

5 verses

Numbers

Numbers 11:35

And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

Numbers 12:16

And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 33:17

And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

Numbers 33:18

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 1:1

These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Fenced enclosures consisting of “a low wall of stones in which thick bundles of thorny acacia are inserted, the tangled branches and long needle-like spikes forming a perfectly impenetrable hedge around the encampment” of tents and cattle which they sheltered. Such like enclosures abound in the wilderness of Paran, which the Israelites entered after leaving Sinai (Num. 11:35; 12:16; 33:17, 18). This third encampment of the Israelites has been identified with the modern ‘Ain el-Hudhera, some 40 miles north-east of Sinai. Here Miriam (q.v.), being displeased that Moses had married a Cushite wife (Num. 12:1), induced Aaron to join with her in rebelling against Moses. God vindicated the authority of his “servant Moses,” and Miriam was smitten with leprosy. Moses interceded for her, and she was healed (Num. 12:4-16). From this encampment the Israelites marched northward across the plateau of et-Tih, and at length reached KADESH.

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From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(villages), (Numbers 11:35; 12:16; 33:17; 1:1) a station of the Israelites in the desert, and perhaps recognizable in the Arabic Ain Hudhera , forty miles northeast of Sinai.