THEN CAME. This was in the first month of the fortieth year alter Exodus. Compare Numbers 20:28 with Numbers 33:38 and Deuteronomy 2:1. A gap of 37 years between the spies (Numbers chapter 13 and Numbers chapter 14) and Numbers chapter 20. This blank should be carefully noted. See note on Numbers 14... [ Continue Reading ]
WOULD GOD. Figure of speech _Eonismos_ (App-6). No Hebrew for "God "here. WHEN. Compare Numbers 11:33. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY HAVE YE... ? Septuagint reads, "why hast thou? "Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6). CONGREGATION. assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. EVIL. See App-44. OR OF. Note Figure of speech _Paradiastole,_ App-6, to emphasize the three items: figs, vines, and pomegranates. figs, vines,... pomegranates. See note on Numbers 13:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOOR. entrance. TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _'ohel._ See App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ROD. Compare Numbers 17:5. Some think (from Numbers 20:9) the rod "from before the testimony", as in Numbers 17:10. but Numbers 20:11 it is "his rod". ASSEMBLY. congregation. SPEAK YE UNTO THE ROCK. Not "smite" as in Numbers 20:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. He spoke to the People instead of to the rock. MUST WE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS: i.e. Moses' tribal rod. Compare Numbers 20:8. SMOTE. Instead of speaking. TWICE. Showing the heat of his feeling. DRANK. Compare 1 Corinthians 10:4, and see note there.... [ Continue Reading ]
BELIEVED ME NOT. So Moses entered not in, because of unbelief. ME. Hence called "rebellion" in Numbers 20:24 with Numbers 27:14. Compare Deuteronomy 32:51. Compare "we" in Numbers 20:10. IN THE EYES, &C. His complaint in Numbers 11:21 was not public.... [ Continue Reading ]
MERIBAH. contention. Psalms 106:32, &c. HE WAS SANCTIFIED. He hallowed Himself. See note on "holy", Exodus 3:5. Compare Ezekiel 38:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFALLEN US. "found us". Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), to emphasize the importance of the place. See notes on Numbers 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
WELLS. Hebrew. _beer._ See note on Genesis 21:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY ME. through me. "Me" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for "my country".... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT DOING ANY THING ELSE. Hebrew "without. word": i.e. without [saying]. word. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
TURNED AWAY. Compare Judges 11:18; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
KADESH. See notes on Numbers 20:1, and Compare Numbers 33:37. HOR. Compare Numbers 33:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
GATHERED. Figure of speech _Euphemismos_ (App-6) for dying. die, and be buried as all his fathers were, _Sheol_ being _the_ grave. See App-35. Compare Genesis 25:8; Psalms 26:9; Acts 13:36. WORD. Hebrew "mouth". Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what was spoken by it. Compar... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO HIS PEOPLE. Figure of speech _Ellipsis,_ supplied from Numbers 20:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOP OF THE MOUNT. Compare Genesis 8:4; Genesis 22:2.Exodus 19; Matthew 5:1.Ezekiel 40:2.Revelation 21:10; Deuteronomy 34:1.Matthew 17:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAW. Hebrew. _ra'ah,_ to perceive, understand. Compare Genesis 16:13; Genesis 42:1.Exodus 20:18. DEAD. The death of Aaron coincides with the end of the wanderings. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Exodus 16:31. one of the thirteen occurrences of the expression before the division of the two kingdo... [ Continue Reading ]