_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Orders concerning the silver trumpets, Numbers 10:1. The removal of the Israelites to Paran, Numbers 10:11. The treaty of Moses with Hobab, Numbers 10:29. His prayer at the removal and resting of the ark, Numbers 10:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Two trumpets_ For Aaron's two sons; though afterward the number of the trumpets was much increased, as the number of the priests also was. These trumpets were ordained, both to signify the great duty of ministers, to preach the word, and for use, as here follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
_For their journeys_ As a sign for them to march forward, and consequently for the rest to follow them.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall be saved_ If you use this ordinance of God with trust and dependance upon God for help.... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the day of your gladness_ Days appointed for rejoicing and thanksgiving to God for former mercies or deliverances. _Your solemn days_ Your stated festivals. _For a memorial_ That God may remember you for good to accept and bless you. God then takes pleasure in our religious exercises, when we ta... [ Continue Reading ]
_Paran_ From which they travelled to other places, and then returned into it again, Numbers 12:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The others_ The Gershonites and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of its utensils, which the Kohathites brought some time after them.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Raguel_ Called also _Reul, Exodus 2:18_, who seems to be the same with _Jethro;_ it being usual in Scripture for one person to have two or three names. And therefore this _Hobab_ is not _Jethro_, but his son, which may seem more probable, because Jethro was old and unfit to travel, and desirous, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will not go_ So he might sincerely say, though afterward he was overcome by the persuasions of Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou mayest be to us instead of eyes_ A very significant expression, importing that he should be to them as a guide to the blind. Several ancient versions, however, give a different turn to these words, probably in order to reconcile them with the promise of the divine conduct. The Chaldaic Paraphr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Three days_ With continued journeys; only it seems probable that the cloud made little pauses, that they might have time for sleep and necessary refreshments. _The ark went before them_ Although in their stations it was in the middle, yet in their marches it went before them; and the cloud was cons... [ Continue Reading ]
_By day_ And by night too, as was expressed before. So we must learn to compare places of Scripture, and to supply the defects of one out of another, as we do in all authors.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Return, O Lord_, &c. Let thy divine presence in the cloud take up its fixed residence over the ark, for the safety of this thy people whom thou hast so greatly multiplied: or, _give rest_, that is, a safe and quiet place to thy people, free from enemies and dangers.... [ Continue Reading ]