Numbers 33 testifies to another and beautiful truth, Jehovah’s remembrance of all the past, of all our journeyings, of all the scenes of difficulty through our weakness, and even worse occasionally too, of solemn judgments. And here we have it rehearsed.
It was good to think of His ways with them, good for those who were about to enter on a new scene to look back on every step of the journey. It is thus far from being an unimportant chapter, or, as it might seem to the superficial, a mere dry list of names.
There is no part of scripture which has not a divine as well as moral purpose in it.