Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Numbers 20:18
by me. through me. "Me" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for "my country".
by me. through me. "Me" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for "my country".
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_AND EDOM SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT PASS BY ME, LEST I COME OUT AGAINST THEE WITH THE SWORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֱדֹ֔ום לֹ֥א תַעֲבֹ֖ר בִּ
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...
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...
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...
Edom, the people who dwelt near Mount Hor. Those of Seir, lying more to the west, (Du Hamel) granted them leave to pass, and to buy food, Deuteronomy ii. 28, 29. Grotius maintains, that the Hebrews mi...
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...
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...
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...
AND EDOM SAID UNTO HIM,.... The king of Edom replied to Israel, represented by the messengers sent in their name: THOU SHALL NOT PASS BY ME; through my country: LEST I COME OUT AGAINST THEE WITH THE...
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. Ver. 18. _Thou shalt not pass._] As fearing what so great an army once got in might do; they are not us...
_By me_ Through my country: I will not suffer thee to do so; which was an act of policy, to secure themselves from so numerous a host. _Said_ That is, their messengers replied what here follows....
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...
The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage....
And Edom, that is, the king of the Edomites, in the name of his people, SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT PASS BY ME, LEST I COME OUT AGAINST THEE WITH THE SWORD. To the very ungracious refusal is added t...
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...
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...
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....
"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...
Numbers 20:18 Edom H123 said H559 (H8799) pass H5674 (H8799) out H3318 (H8799) against H7125 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Numbers 20:18...
By me — Through my country: I will not suffer thee to do so: which was an act of policy, to secure themselves from so numerous an host....