민수기 33:23의 인용 해설

There is a third purpose in the Torah recording all these details which appear irrelevant to us the reader of these lines three millennia afterwards. Every journey was triggered by certain events or certain tendencies displayed by the people at that location. This is the reason the Torah does not merely give us the number of the way stations but names each one of them. [Clearly most of these places being in the middle of the desert had not been named before and only were so named after the Israelites had stopped there to commemorate this. Ed.] If the reason that G’d decided to move the people from one location to another was because they had conducted themselves properly, then the name of the location at which they arrived next reflected this, such as ויחנו בהר שפר (verse 23). If the reason G’d made them break camp was because the people had misbehaved, the place where they encamped reflected this, such as ויחנו בחרדה, a name reflecting fear, disquiet. When the name of the place suggests something pleasant, positive, it means that the move had been orchestrated by the attribute of Mercy, whereas if the name of the place suggests a negative connotation this reflects the fact that the attribute of Justice had orchestrated that particular journey.
Concerning this matter the sages in the Jerusalem Talmud said that when the Israelites had been complaining about their fate, the watchmen surrounding the camp would tremble all night long. This teaches that the different attributes of G’d were very much in evidence, and that the moods of the people kept on changing. This is what Solomon spoke of in Song of Songs 3,8: “to protect him from the fear during the nights.” He meant that the Israelites were afraid of the attribute of Justice.