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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Numbers 19:9

And a man that is clean, Levitically pure, shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, for they were now a most precious treasure, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, store them up most carefully, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation, to prepare a water intended to remove certain defilements.

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See also Numbers 19:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 19:9. _FOR A WATER OF SEPARATION_] That is, the ashes were to be kept, in order to be mixed with water, Numbers 19:17, and sprinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WATER OF SEPARATION - In Numbers 8:7, the water of purification from sin is the “water of purifying.” So that which was to remedy a state of legal separation is here called “water of separation.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    9. THE RED HEIFER AND THE WATER OF PURIFICATION CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The provision appointed: The red heifer and the ashes (Numbers 19:1)_ 2. The use of the water of purification (Numbers 19:11) This is...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PURIFICATION OF THE UNCLEAN THROUGH CONTACT WITH THE DEAD. This was effected by sprinkling the unclean person twice within seven days (Numbers 19:12 _mg._, Numbers 19:19) with running water, the v...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. Compare the antitype, Joseph of Arimathea. Matthew 27:57; Luke 23:50. Joh 19:38-42. SIN. See App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _it shall be kept_ i.e. the ashes, for which the Heb. word is singular, not plural. _a water of_ IMPURITY] i.e. a water for the removal of impurity. Cf. -water of sin" (Numbers 8:7). The word _niddâh...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A MAN THAT IS CLEAN— i.e. free from any legal defilement—_shall gather up the ashes;_ which, being taken up, were pounded and sifted, as the Jews tell us:—_and it shall be kept; i.e._ according to som...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    H. LAWS OF THE RED HEIFER AND UNCLEANNESS (NUMBERS 19) TEXT Numbers 19:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2. This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, sayi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE THAT BURNETH HER SHALL WASH HIS CLOTHES IN WATER, AND BATHE HIS FLESH IN WATER, AND SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:9 sin. (d-45) Or 'sin-offering.' see ch. 8.7, Genesis 4:7 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WATER OF SEPARATION] RV 'water of impurity,' i.e. water for the removal of (ceremonial) impurity: see on Numbers 8:7. 11-16. The persons for whom this 'water of impurity' is provided are those who ha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SACRIFICE OF THE RED HEIFER In order to provide a special means of purification for those who are defiled by contact with a dead body, a preparation called the 'water of separation' is made from t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 THE CEREMONY TO MAKE A PERSON *CLEAN – NUMBERS 19:1-10 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. V2

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָסַ֣ף ׀ אִ֣ישׁ טָהֹ֗ור אֵ֚ת אֵ֣פֶר הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    TITHES AND CLEANSINGS Numbers 18:1; Numbers 19:1 1. DUTIES AND SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY The statutes of chapter 18, are related to the rebellion of Korah by a clause in Numbers 18:5, "Ye shall keep...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PURIFICATION FOR UNCLEANNESS Numbers 19:1 We might have expected this chapter to occur in Leviticus. Is it not incongruous in this narrative of the pilgrimage? Nay; this is the most appropriate plac...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    A most interesting arrangement is here described. It was a provision for the sacrifice of a red heifer. Instructions were given for the ceremonial cleansing of the people during the period of their wi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a (e) wa...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was not this in the laying up the ashes a type of the everlasting efficacy of JESUS'S salvation? Is he not laid up in the everlasting council of peace, and for the daily, hourly, unceasing application...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But if, on the one hand, priesthood must lead the people through the wilderness, and if Moses's rod of authority cannot do this, if it can only smite; on the other, there must be a provision connected...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND A MAN [THAT IS] CLEAN SHALL GATHER UP THE ASHES OF THE HEIFER,.... A man, a clean priest, as the Targum of Jonathan; in later times great care was taken that the priest concerned in the burning of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A man shall gather up the ashes_ The ashes of the heifer were separated as well as they could be from the ashes of the wood wherewith it was burned, were pounded and sifted, and laid up for the use o...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer. 11 The law for the vse of it in purification of the vncleaue. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ord...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ORDINANCE OF THE RED HEIFER (vs.1-22) This law concerning the offering of the red heifer is unusual in all of its circumstances, but it is consistent with the character of the book of Numbers, where...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The heifer was to be wholly burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire, to satisfy God's justice for man's sin. These ashe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, i.e. for their use, and therefore in a fit place or places, whence any of them might easily procure it. FOR A WATER, or, _to the water_, i.e. to be put...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    One of the most important sections of the book of Numbers now lies open before us, presenting for our consideration the deeply interesting and instructive ordinance of "The red Heifer." A thoughtful s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 19:9 man H376 clean H2889 gather H622 (H8804) ashes H665 heifer H6510 store H3240 (H8689) outside...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ONE WHO BURNS THE HEIFER ALSO TO WASH HIS CLOTHES AND BATHE AND TO BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVENING, AND THE ONE WHO GATHERS THE PURIFYING ASHES TO STORE THEM OUTSIDE THE CAMP AND THEN CLEANSE HIMSELF...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Numbers 19:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,_ This ordinance was not given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but in the wilderness of Paran, after the people had broken their covenant...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The ordinance of the red heifer. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Eleazer. CONCLUSION: The believer needs constant cleansing from defilement contracted in his pilgrim walk through the world....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 19:2. _A red heifer,_ a young and spotless cow, which in the third year had nearly come to her full growth. The whole body of this victim was burnt with holy fire from the altar. From her ashe...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A red heifer without spot._ THE RED HEIFER I. It is undoubtedly true that even the true Israelite, the true believer in Christ, is the subject of daily defilement. 1. Some of our defilement arises...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 19:1__ Human corpses caused the most serious pollution under the Mosaic system, affecting all who approached them. Those who have been near or have touched corpses must keep aw...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES “Ordinances respecting purification from the uncleanness of death.” The association of death with sin (Genesis 2:17) sufficiently explains the ideas on which these ordi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN (Numbers 19:1). NUMBERS 19:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And then in chapter nineteen this ordinance of the red heifer. Where they were to bring in a red heifer without spot, wherein there is no blemish, upon which there have never been placed a yoke: And t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 9:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For a water — Or, to the water, that is, to be put to the water, or mixed with it. Of separation — Appointed for the cleansing of them that are in a state of separation, who for their uncleanness are...

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