Numbers 10:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MAKE THEE TWO TRUMPETS OF SILVER; OF A WHOLE PIECE SHALT THOU MAKE THEM: THAT THOU MAYEST USE THEM FOR THE CALLING OF THE ASSEMBLY, AND FOR THE JOURNEYING OF THE CAMPS._ Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece, х_ MIQSHAAH_ (H4749)] - turned, brought into a round form [Septuagint, elata... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY SHALL BLOW WITH THEM, ALL THE ASSEMBLY SHALL ASSEMBLE THEMSELVES TO THEE AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION._ When they shall blow. There seem to have been signals made by a difference in the loudness and variety in the notes, suited for different occasions, and which... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THEY BLOW BUT WITH ONE TRUMPET, THEN THE PRINCES, WHICH ARE HEADS OF THE THOUSANDS OF ISRAEL, SHALL GATHER THEMSELVES UNTO THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN YE BLOW AN ALARM, THEN THE CAMPS THAT LIE ON THE EAST PARTS SHALL GO FORWARD._ When ye blow an alarm, х_ TªRUW`AAH_ (H8643)] - a loud noise, a broken but prolonged peal [Septuagint, seemasian. One alarm was the recognized signal for the eastern division of the camp-namely, the tribes of Judah... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN YE BLOW AN ALARM THE SECOND TIME, THEN THE CAMPS THAT LIE ON THE SOUTH SIDE SHALL TAKE THEIR JOURNEY: THEY SHALL BLOW AN ALARM FOR THEIR JOURNEYS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF AARON, THE PRIESTS, SHALL BLOW WITH THE TRUMPETS; AND THEY SHALL BE TO YOU FOR AN ORDINANCE FOR EVER THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS._ The sons of Aaron ... Neither the Levites nor any in the common ranks of the people could be employed in this office of signal-giving. In order to attr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF YE GO TO WAR IN YOUR LAND AGAINST THE ENEMY THAT OPPRESSETH YOU, THEN YE SHALL BLOW AN ALARM WITH THE TRUMPETS; AND YE SHALL BE REMEMBERED BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND YE SHALL BE SAVED FROM YOUR ENEMIES._ If ye go to war - in the land of Canaan, either, when attacked by foreign invaders o... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO IN THE DAY OF YOUR GLADNESS, AND IN YOUR SOLEMN DAYS, AND IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS, YE SHALL BLOW WITH THE TRUMPETS OVER YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS, AND OVER THE SACRIFICES OF YOUR PEACE OFFERINGS; THAT THEY MAY BE TO YOU FOR A MEMORIAL BEFORE YOUR GOD: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Also in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE TWENTIETH DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH, IN THE SECOND YEAR, THAT THE CLOUD WAS TAKEN UP FROM OFF THE TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY._ On the twentieth day ... The Israelites had lain encamped in Wady Er Rahah and the neighbouring valleys of the Sinaitic range, for the space of e... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOOK THEIR JOURNEYS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI; AND THE CLOUD RESTED IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN._ WILDERNESS OF PARAN. It stretched from the base of the Sinaitic group, or from Et-Tih, over that extensive plateau to the southwestern borders of Palestine (see further t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY FIRST TOOK THEIR JOURNEY ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD BY THE HAND OF MOSES._ They first took their journey ... by the hand of Moses. It is probable that Moses, on the breaking up of the encampment, stationed himself on some eminence to see the ranks defile in order through the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS WERE THE JOURNEYINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THEIR ARMIES, WHEN THEY SET FORWARD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO HOBAB, THE SON OF RAGUEL THE MIDIANITE, MOSES' FATHER IN LAW, WE ARE JOURNEYING UNTO THE PLACE OF WHICH THE LORD SAID, I WILL GIVE IT YOU: COME THOU WITH US, AND WE WILL DO THEE GOOD: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN GOOD CONCERNING ISRAEL._ Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite - cal... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, I WILL NOT GO; BUT I WILL DEPART TO MINE OWN LAND, AND TO MY KINDRED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, LEAVE US NOT, I PRAY THEE; FORASMUCH AS THOU KNOWEST HOW WE ARE TO ENCAMP IN THE WILDERNESS, AND THOU MAYEST BE TO US INSTEAD OF EYES._ Leave us not, I pray thee. The earnest importunity of Moses to secure the attendance of this man, when he enjoyed the benefit of the directing cloud,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE, IF THOU GO WITH US, YEA, IT SHALL BE, THAT WHAT GOODNESS THE LORD SHALL DO UNTO US, THE SAME WILL WE DO UNTO THEE._ If thou go with us. A strong inducement is here held out; but it seems not to have changed the young man's purpose, for he departed and settled in his own district.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DEPARTED FROM THE MOUNT OF THE LORD THREE DAYS' JOURNEY: AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD WENT BEFORE THEM IN THE THREE DAYS' JOURNEY, TO SEARCH OUT A RESTING PLACE FOR THEM._ They departed ... three days' journey - i:e., (the first day's progress being very small), about 18 or 20... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CLOUD OF THE LORD WAS UPON THEM BY DAY, WHEN THEY WENT OUT OF THE CAMP._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE ARK SET FORWARD, THAT MOSES SAID, RISE UP, LORD, AND LET THINE ENEMIES BE SCATTERED; AND LET THEM THAT HATE THEE FLEE BEFORE THEE._ When the ark set forward, that Moses said. Moses, as the organ of the people, uttered an appropriate prayer both at the commencement and... [ Continue Reading ]