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10. AT KADESH IN THE FORTIETH YEAR: MURMURING AND CONQUEST
CHAPTER 20
_ 1. The death of Miriam (Numbers 20:1)_
2. The murmuring of the people (Numbers 20:2)
3. The divine instruction (Numbers 20:6...
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ISRAELS ABORTIVE APPEAL TO EDOM (JE). Israel's desire to cross Edom
was due to the wish to attack Canaan on the E. instead of on the S.,
where they had met with defeat (Numbers 14:45). As Kadesh was W...
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WITHOUT DOING ANY THING ELSE. Hebrew "without. word": i.e. without
[saying]. word. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6....
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_Permission to pass through Edom refused_.
The Edomites occupied territory to the south of the Dead Sea,
westward as far as Kadesh (Numbers 20:16) and southward as far as the
eastern arm of the Red S...
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_without_doing _anything_else] lit. -it is not a matter"; i.e. it is
not a matter that can cause you any injury or annoyance; it is a mere
nothing that we ask....
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WITHOUT DOING ANY THING ELSE— The Hebrew is _only, not a word:_ to
which the different versions give different senses. The meaning seems
to be, "It is not a mere promise, or verbal declaration; but we...
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C. PASSAGE REFUSED THROUGH EDOM vv. 14-21
TEXT
Numbers 20:14. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of
Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that
hath befalle...
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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIM, WE WILL GO BY THE HIGH WAY:
AND IF I AND MY CATTLE DRINK OF THY WATER, THEN I WILL PAY FOR IT: I
WILL ONLY, WITHOUT DOING ANY THING ELSE, GO THROUGH ON MY FE...
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DEATH OF MIRIAM. MURMURING AT MERIBAH. DEATH OF AARON
1. Miriam dies while the people are at Kadesh (see on Numbers 13:21;
Numbers 13:26). The first month is the first month of the fortieth
year. As t...
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 20
WATER COMES OUT OF A ROCK – NUMBERS 20:1-13
V1 The *Israelites arrived at the Zin *desert during the fir
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(_19_) I WILL ONLY, WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING ELSE... — Literally,
_Only_ — _it is nothing_ — _let me pass through on my feet.
_...
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וַ יֹּאמְר֨וּ אֵלָ֥יו בְּנֵֽי
־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ בַּֽ †...
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SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH
Numbers 20:1
THERE is a mustering at Kadesh of the scattered tribes, for now the
end of the period of wandering approaches, and the generation that has
been disciplined i...
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EDOM REFUSES PASSAGE; AARON DIES
Numbers 20:14
It was an ungracious act on the part of the Edomites-descendants of
Esau, Jacob's brother-to forbid the passage of the chosen people
through their terri...
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We now reach the record of events at the close of the forty years. The
people were again at Kadesh. Here Miriam died and was buried. A study
of the district will show that perhaps the severest part of...
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The Reader will recollect the relationship by nature between Israel
and Edom. Israel sprung from Jacob, and Edom from Esau. One might have
thought (speaking after the manner of men), that such affinit...
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The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has
evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise.
It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
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19._And the children of Israel said unto him. _It is doubtful whether
or not the ambassadors were sent a second time, in order to remove all
unjust suspicions, and to appease the ferocity (of the Edom...
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Miriam the prophetess dies; this character of testimony is closed.
Israel grows old, so to speak, in the wilderness; and the voice which
sang songs of triumph in coming up from the depths of the Red S...
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AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIM,.... The messengers sent by
the children of Israel made answer to the king of Edom:
WE WILL GO BY THE HIGHWAY; we desire no other favour but that of the
publi...
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_By me_ Through my country: I will not suffer thee to do so; which was
an act of policy, to secure themselves from so numerous a host. _Said_
That is, their messengers replied what here follows....
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1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dieth.
2 They murmure for want of water.
7 Moses smiting the rocke bringeth forth water at Meribah.
14 Moses at Kadesh desireth passage thorow Edo...
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And the children of Israel, through their representatives, SAID UNTO
HIM, WE WILL GO BY THE HIGHWAY; AND IF I AND MY CATTLE DRINK OF THY
WATER, THEN I WILL PAY FOR IT, the people of the country were n...
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The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage....
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MOSES DISOBEDIENT BECAUSE PROVOKED
(vs.1-13)
Journeying again, the congregation came to the wilderness of ZIN and
stopped at Kadesh, where Miriam died and was buried. The forty years
of wandering ha...
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14-21 The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel encamped,
was through the country of Edom. The ambassadors who were sent
returned with a denial. The Edomites feared to receive damage by t...
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIM, i.e. their messengers replied unto
them what here follows. I WILL PAY FOR IT; for water was a scarce
commodity in those parts....
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"Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into
the desert of Zin, in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh;
and Miriam died there, and was buried there." Verse 1.
The c...
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Numbers 20:19 children H1121 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) go H5927
(H8799) Highway H4546 livestock H4735 drink...
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2). THE APPEAL TO EDOM (NUMBERS 20:14).
The incident at Meribah was followed by an appeal to Edom to be
allowed to use the King's Highway through their territory. Compare
here Deuteronomy 2:4. The mar...
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CONTENTS: Water from the rock and Moses' sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Eleazar, King of Edom.
CONCLUSION: God is able to supply His people with necessaries even in
their greatest strai...
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Numbers 20:1. _The desert of Zin._ Critics are not agreed whether this
was the same wilderness, and the same Kadesh to which the people
arrived on the eighth journey after leaving Egypt. The arguments...
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_Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border._
A reasonable request, and an ungenerous refusal:--
I. A reasonable request.
1. Reasonable in itself.
2. Urged by forcible reasons.
(1) Th...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:1 Marching from Kadesh to the Plains of
Moab. After nearly 40 years of aimless wandering in the wilderness,
Israel is ready to enter the Land of Promise. Most of the older
g...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:14__ YOUR BROTHER ISRAEL. Esau (Edom) was
the twin brother of Jacob (Israel); see Genesis 25:24. The Edomites
were therefore the
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:17 THE KING’S HIGHWAY is the main trade
route from Damascus to Arabia, passing through Edom in the high hills
southeast of the Dead Sea. Israel wanted to travel north along...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
We now enter upon the narrative of the third and last stage of the
journey of Israel from Sinai to the Promised Land: this narrative is
given in this and the following c...
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EXPOSITION
THE LAST MARCH: FROM KADESH TO HOR (Numbers 20:1).
NUMBERS 20:1
THEN CAME THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, EVEN THE WHOLE CONGREGATION. T
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Chapter twenty records the verse, the death of Miriam, the sister of
Moses. And she died there in Kadesh the desert of sin and was buried.
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gather...
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Deuteronomy 2:28; Deuteronomy 2:6...
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Said — That is, their messengers replied what here follows....