Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 15:33
i.e. To the rulers of the congregation, who, as they represented and governed the congregation, are called by the name of the congregation.
i.e. To the rulers of the congregation, who, as they represented and governed the congregation, are called by the name of the congregation.
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...
_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...
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
וַ יַּקְרִ֣יבוּ אֹתֹ֔ו הַ מֹּצְאִ֥ים אֹתֹ֖ו מ
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...
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...
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 THEY THAT FOUND HIM GATHERING STICKS,.... Admonished him, as say the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi, but he would not desist; wherefore they BROUGHT HIM UNTO MOSES AND AARON, AND UNTO ALL THE CONG...
_To all the congregation_ That is, to the rulers of the congregation. _They_ (Moses and Aaron, and the other rulers) _put him in ward_ Till the will of the Lord concerning him should be declared. _Wha...
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 they that found him gathering sticks, that caught him in the act of openly transgressing the Law of God, BROUGHT HIM UNTO MOSES AND AARON AND UNTO ALL THE CONGREGATION. The matter was brought to t...
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 15:33 found H4672 (H8802) gathering H7197 (H8781) sticks H6086 brought H7126 (H8686) Moses H4872 Aaron...
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...
John 8:3...
To all the congregation — That is, to the rulers of the congregation....