Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 15:32
This seems to be added as an example of a presumptuous sin; for as the law of the sabbath was plain and positive, so this transgression of it must needs be a known and wilful sin.
This seems to be added as an example of a presumptuous sin; for as the law of the sabbath was plain and positive, so this transgression of it must needs be a known and wilful sin.
Verse Numbers 15:32. _THEY FOUND A MAN THAT GATHERED STICKS UPON THE_ _SABBATH_] This was in all likelihood a case of that kind supposed above: the man despised the word of the Lord, and therefore br...
Moses mentions here, as is his wont (compare Leviticus 24:10), the first open transgression and its punishment in order to exemplify the laws which he is laying down. The offence of Sabbath-breaking w...
5. VARIOUS LAWS, THE SABBATH-BREAKER, AND THE TASSELS ON THE GARMENTS CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Concerning offerings in the land (Numbers 15:1)_ 2. The second communication concerning offerings (Numbers 15:1...
NUMBERS 15. A NUMBER OF DETACHED REGULATIONS (from P). NUMBERS 15:1. THE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE APPROPRIATE TO VARIOUS SACRIFICES. The practice of adding such accompaniments to flesh-offe...
WHILE. Only three events recorded during the Punishment wanderings: (1) The Sabbath breaker (Numbers 15:32); (2) The usurpation of Korah (Numbers 16:1; Numbers 16:17;...
_The penalty for breaking the Sabbath_. This section was perhaps placed by the compiler next to the preceding because it relates a signal instance of deliberate transgression....
DISCOURSE: 160 THE SABBATH-BREAKER STONED Numbers 15:32. And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath-day. And they that found him ga...
AND WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, &C.— The following case of the sabbath-breaker seems evidently to be inserted as an instance of that presumptuous manner of sinning spoken of in the preceding verses:...
B. STONING OF THE SABBATH-BREAKER vv. 32-36 TEXT Numbers 15:32. And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33. And they that f...
_AND WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN THE WILDERNESS, THEY FOUND A MAN THAT GATHERED STICKS UPON THE SABBATH DAY._ A man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. This incident is evidently, nar...
LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactmen...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 LAWS ABOUT *SACRIFICES – NUMBERS 15:1-29 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2 He told Moses to give th
AND WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN THE WILDERNESS... — Better, _Now the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found,_ &c. It is probable that the incident which is here recorded is...
וַ יִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֑ר...
OFFERINGS: SABBATH-KEEPING: DRESS Numbers 15:1 THE enactments of this chapter regarding meal offerings and drink offerings, the heave offerings of the first dough, and the atonement for unwitting err...
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING Numbers 15:27 This chapter resembles a sweet flute-like melody inserted between two fierce strains. It reminds us that in the middle of wrath God remembers m...
Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "Whe...
Wilderness of Pharan, if this crime were committed soon after the murmuring of the people, or in some other part of the desert. This example tends to show the severity and extent of the former precept...
We have here introduced into the body of this chapter of laws, a short but awful history of the sabbath-breaker and his dreadful punishment. Reader! if the LORD himself to whom the judgment was referr...
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...
32._And while the children of Israel. _Since we know not in what year, or in what month this happened, it appeared that nothing would be better than to follow the context of Moses. This history shows...
After all this unbelief of the people, when God had declared that the earth should be filled with His glory, by the cutting off of the rebellious congregation, and when one might have supposed they ha...
AND WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN THE WILDERNESS,.... According to Aben Ezra, in the wilderness of Sinai; for it is a common notion of the Jews, that though this fact is recorded here, yet was...
_A man gathered sticks on the sabbath day_ This seems to be mentioned here as an instance of sinning presumptuously; and accordingly it is so understood by the Jews. The law of the sabbath was plain a...
1 The law of the meat offering and the drinke offring. 13.29 The stranger is vnder the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for a heaue offering. 22 The sacrifice for sinne of ignorance....
And while the children of Israel were in trie wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath-day. The incident, the exact time of which is not given, took place some time during th...
The Sabbath-Breaker Stoned....
ORDINANCES CONCERNING VARIOUS OFFERINGS...
OFFERINGS WHEN IN THE LAND (vs.1-21) In this chapter the abrupt change from the subject of Chapter 14 may seem strange to us. However, God is infinitely wise and infinitely good. Chapter 14 has shown...
30-36 Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners, who sin designedly against God's will and glory. Sins thus committed are exceedingly sinful. He that thus breaks the commandment reproaches the Lo...
The words with which our chapter opens are peculiarly striking, when taken in connection with the contents of chapter 14. There all seemed dark and hopeless. Moses had to say to the people, "_Go not u...
Numbers 15:32 children H1121 Israel H3478 wilderness H4057 found H4672 (H8799) man H376 gathering H7197 (H8781) sti
III) PROVISION IN RESPECT OF SIN WITH A HIGH HAND (NUMBERS 15:30). Numbers 15:30 “ But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he be homeborn or a resident alien, the same blasphemes...
CONTENTS: Burnt and free will offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, man who broke Sabbath. CONCLUSION: Sins committed ignorantly must have atonement made for them, for although God is very merciful wit...
Numbers 15:30. _The soul that doeth ought presumptuously,_ literally, with a high hand, _reproacheth the Lord shall be cut off;_ or die, as Deuteronomy 17:12. But in Leviticus 6., atonement was prescr...
_A man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath._ GATHERING STICKS ON THE SABBATH An Oriental legend tells us that, while Solomon was once on his way to visit the Queen of Sheba, he came to a valley in...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:1__ At each place where Israel encamped for a long time, laws were given: at Sinai (Exodus 20:1–
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:32 This seems to be a case of sinning intentionally and publicly. The offender is executed, not just left to be “cut off” (compare vv. Numbers 15:30). In this case it is
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this and the next four Chapter s we have a narrative of certain occurrences and enactments during the penal wandering in the desert, which lasted for nearly thirty-ei...
EXPOSITION THE SABBATH-BREAKER (Numbers 15:32-4). NUMBERS 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness. It is maintained by some that these words were intended to mark the contrast...
Now, in chapter fifteen, The LORD spoke unto Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and When you come into the land (Numbers 15:1-2), Now this is interesting, right after their failure to ent...
Exodus 16:23; Exodus 16:27; Exodus 16:28; Exodus 20:8; Exodus 35:2;...
On the sabbath — day — This seems to be added as an example of a presumptuous sin: for as the law of the sabbath was plain and positive, so this transgression of it must needs be a known and wilful si...