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Verse Numbers 20:17. _WE WILL GO BY THE KING'S_ HIGH-_WAY_] This is
the first time this phrase occurs; it appears to have been a public
road made by the king's authority at the expense of the state....
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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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WELLS. Hebrew. _beer._ See note on Genesis 21:19....
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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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_the king's_ WAY] A main trade-route through the country. In modern
Palestine such a route is known by the name of _darb es-sulṭân_or
-Sultan's way....
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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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_LET US PASS, I PRAY THEE, THROUGH THY COUNTRY: WE WILL NOT PASS
THROUGH THE FIELDS, OR THROUGH THE VINEYARDS, NEITHER WILL WE DRINK OF
THE WATER OF THE WELLS: WE WILL GO BY THE KING'S HIGH WAY, WE WI...
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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 KING'S _high_ WAY] Edom lay on the direct route connecting Egypt
with Babylonia. The KING'S WAY here, however, is not a proper name,
but signifies the most direct route. They promised not to tresp...
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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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WE WILL GO BY THE KING’S HIGHWAY. — It is supposed that this
military road led through the broad Wady _el Ghuweir,_ which is
celebrated for its excellent pasture and its numerous springs. (See
Keil _i...
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נַעְבְּרָה ־נָּ֣א בְ אַרְצֶ֗ךָ לֹ֤א
נַעֲבֹר֙...
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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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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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LET US PASS, I PRAY THEE, THROUGH THY COUNTRY,.... That being the
nearest and shortest way to the land of Canaan, from the place where
they now were:
WE WILL NOT PASS THROUGH THE FIELDS, OR THROUGH T...
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_The wells_ Or _pits_, which any of you have digged for your private
use, not without paying for it, Numbers 20:19; but only of the water
of common rivers, which are free to all passengers. No man's p...
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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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let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country; we will not pass
through the fields or through the vineyards, in an irregular,
careless, and straggling manner of marching, or in a way which
permitted i...
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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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_ 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 passe...
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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 20:17 pass H5674 (H8799) country H776 pass H5674 (H8799)
fields H7704 vineyards H3754 drink H8354 ...
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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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_We will go by the king’s highway._
THE KING’S HIGHWAY
They meant that, however tempting was the fruit of the fields, however
fascinating the byways, however inviting the sparkling water in the
well...
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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 2:1; Deuteronomy 2:27; Deuteronomy 2:29; Numbers 21:1;...
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The wells — Or, pits, which any of you have digged for your private
use, not without paying for it, Numbers 20:19, but only of the waters
of common rivers, which are free to all passengers. No man's p...