Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. Ver. 2. _Keep the passover._] This passover; for they kept no more but this, till they came into the land of Canaan, Jos 5:10 Exo 12:25 because of their often and uncertain removes. The feast of tabernacles likewise was for... [ Continue Reading ]
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. Ver. 3. _According to all the rites._] It was a true saying of Socrates in Xenophon, _Deum eo cultus genere coli v... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel._ Ver. 5. _And they kept the passover._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 12:1 _"_ &c... [ Continue Reading ]
And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: Ver. 6. _They could not keep the passover._] Because they were to be unclean seven days. Num 19:11 Now, among the very... [ Continue Reading ]
And those men said unto him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? Ver. 7. _And those men said unto him._] Moses they knew was a meet man to resolve this case of con... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. Ver. 8. _Stand still and I will hear._] Moses was but the echo of God's voice; John Baptist, "the voice of one crying in the wilderness": St Paul "received of the Lord" what he delivered to the Church,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD._ Ver. 10. _Or be in a journey afar off._] This rendered a man unfit to partake; because either h... [ Continue Reading ]
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs]. Ver. 11. _With unleavened bread._] Teaching them to "purge out the old leaven," that fusty, swelling, souring, spreading, corruption of nature and practice. _ And bitter herbs.... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. Ver. 12. _They shall leave none._] The Lord in his infinite wisdom would hereby prevent all occasions of idolatry, which is easily admitted in the reservations... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. Ver. 17. _And when the cloud._] This visible sign they had of God's presence, for their motion or station... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. Ver. 19. _Kept the charge of the Lord._] Or, His wateh - viz., to be ready at any hour to remove. So must we always watch and be in readiness, as not knowing wh... [ Continue Reading ]
Or [whether it were] two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. Ver. 22. _When it was taken up they journeyed._] In that wilderness of Arabi... [ Continue Reading ]
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. Ver. 23. _At the commandment of the Lord._] This signified that the saints are to rest, or go on, at the... [ Continue Reading ]