NUMBERS CHAPTER 20 The people journey in the wilderness of Zin; they murmur against Moses for want of water, NUMBERS 20:2. God commandeth Moses to speak to the rock, that it might yield water, NUMBERS 20:7,8. Moses striking the rock twice, NUMBERS 20:9, displeaseth God, NUMBERS 20:12. Moses desiring... [ Continue Reading ]
The water having followed them through all their former journeys, began now to fail them here, because they were now come near Canaan and other countries, where waters might be had by ordinary means, and therefore God would not use extraordinary, lest he should seem to prostitute the honour of mirac... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering and painful death. Their sin was much greater than their parents in like case, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by the terrible effects of them, which their eyes had seen.... [ Continue Reading ]
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MOSES AND AARON WENT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE ASSEMBLY; partly to avoid the growing rage of the people, for God's singular protection of them did not exclude the use of ordinary means; and partly to go to God for relief and redress.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE ROD; that rod which was laid up before the Lord in the tabernacle, as appears from NUMBERS 20:9. But whether it was Aaron's rod, which was undoubtedly laid up there, NUMBERS 17:10, or Moses's rod, by which he wrought so many miracles, it is not considerable; or whether it was not one and the sam... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Out of the tabernacle.... [ Continue Reading ]
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To the men it was a sacrament, 1 CORINTHIANS 10:3,4, but to the beasts it was no holy, but a common thing. So that the elements in the sacraments have no inherent and inseparable holiness, but only a relative holiness with respect to their use, out of which they are unholy and common.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE BELIEVED ME NOT, but showed your infidelity; which they did either by their looks and gestures, or rather by the matter and manner of their expressions and actions; either, 1. By smiting the rock, and that twice, which is emphatically noted, as if he doubted whether once smiting would have done... [ Continue Reading ]
MERIBAH, called _Meribah Kadesh_, to distinguish it from another _Meribah_, EXODUS 17:7. _Sanctified in them_, or, _among them_, to wit, the children of Israel last mentioned, by the demonstration of his omnipotency, veracity, and clemency towards the Israelites, and of his impartial holiness and se... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES SENT MESSENGERS, by God's direction, DEUTERONOMY 2:1 THY BROTHER; for _was not Esau (who is Edom_, GENESIS 36:1) _Jacob's brother_ ? ZECHARIAH 1:2. _All the travel_; all the wanderings and afflictions of our parents, and of us their children, which doubtless have come to thine ears.... [ Continue Reading ]
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AN ANGEL, to wit, the Angel of the covenant, Christ Jesus, who first appeared to Moses in the bush, EXODUS 3:2, and afterward in the cloudy pillar, who conducted Moses and the people out of Egypt, and through the wilderness, as appears from EXODUS 14:19, EXODUS 23:20 33:14 1 CORINTHIANS 9:4. For tho... [ Continue Reading ]
_ Wells, or pits_, which any of you have digged for your private use, to wit, without paying for it, NUMBERS 20:19 DEUTERONOMY 2:6; but only of the waters of common rivers, which are free to all passengers, and will not be prejudicial to thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Through my country, as thou desirest; I will not suffer time to do so: which was an act of common policy to secure themselves from so numerous a host.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THROUGH HIS BORDER, but permitted them to go by their border, DEUTERONOMY 2:4,8 JUD 11:18, and furnished them with victuals for their money, DEUTERONOMY 2:29. ISRAEL TURNED AWAY, according to God's command, DEUTERONOMY 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose inhabitants were then called _Horims_, DEUTERONOMY 2:12, and _Esau the Horite_, GENESIS 36:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
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This was one, but not the only reason. God would not have Moses and Aaron to carry the people into Canaan, for this reason also, to signify the insufficiency of the Mosaical and Aaronical priesthood to make them happy, and the necessity of a better, and so to keep the Israelites from resting in them... [ Continue Reading ]
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OF HIS GARMENTS, to wit, of his priestly garments, EXODUS 28:2 LEVITICUS 8:7, in token of his resignation of his office. See the like ISAIAH 22:15,ISAIAH 22:19. PUT THEM UPON ELEAZAR, by way of admission and inauguration of him to his office.... [ Continue Reading ]
That their hearts might be more affected with their loss of so great a pillar, and that they all might be witnesses of the translation of the priesthood from Aaron to Eleazar, and therefore might give him the honour due to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
AARON DIED THERE, to wit, in Mount Hor. OBJECT. He died in Mosera, DEUTERONOMY 10:6. ANSW. Mosera was the general name of the place where that station was, and Mount Hor is a particular place in it, where he died, and was buried also, DEUTERONOMY 10:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. WHEN THE CONGREGATION understood by the relation of Moses and Eleazar, and by other signs. So _seeing_ is used GENESIS 42:1 ACTS 7:12. THIRTY DAYS; the time of public and solemn mourning for great persons. See DEUTERONOMY 34:8.... [ Continue Reading ]