ARAD. Compare Joshua 12:14. SOUTH. the _Negeb._ See Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1; Genesis 13:3; Genesis 24:62.Genesis 13:17. CAME. was entering. WAY OF THE SPIES. Numbers 13:21, &c.. "the way of the _Atharim_ ", Septuagint so renders it, as. proper name; probably the name of the caravan route.... [ Continue Reading ]
VOWED. VOW. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis. made. solemn vow. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WILT INDEED DELIVER. same Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), only here it is translated and emphatically expressed by the word "indeed". Hebrew. "a delivering Thou wilt delive... [ Continue Reading ]
CANAANITES. The Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch add "into his (i.e. Israel's) hand". AND THEIR CITIES. These destroyed after Israel came into the land. Compare Joshua 12:14.Judges 1:16; Judges 1:17. HORMAH. utter destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13). DISCOURAGED. grieved or impatient.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD _= Elohim._ They had lost sight of the covenant God, Jehovah. WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. OUR SOUL. we. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIERY SERPENTS. burning. Hebrew. _nacheshim saraphim._ Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, because the effect of the bite was. burning sensation. Hebrew. _saraph_ (see App-43.) The _Seraphim_ so called in Isaiah 6:2, because they were _burning_ ones: hence the name for these serpents. In... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. See note on Numbers 3:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
SERPENT. Hebrew. _nachash,_. _shining_ thing of brass, as in Deuteronomy 8:15; 2 Kings 18:4, &c.: so that _nachash_ is synonymous with _saraph,_ and both words are thus used of serpents. HE LIVED. Compare John 3:14; John 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
COASTS. border.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE WARS OF THE LORD. This may _commence_ the quotation, thus: "the wars of Jehovah [were with] Eth-Vaheb by the Red sea (or with. whirlwind. Hebrew. _Supha._ Compare Amos 1:14.Isaiah 66:15.Nahum 1:3.Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 4:13) and by the brooks of Arnon". Eth-Vaheb may be the proper name of th... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WENT. This _Ellipsis_ is wrongly supplied. It should be "from thence toward Beer". No mention is made of Beer in the list of journeys in Numbers 33. SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS SONG. See note on Exodus 15:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WENT. No mention is made of any of these places in the itinerary in Numbers 33. Why not supply "[the waters or streams] went" into all these places? See Numbers 21:16. The Structure shows the scope of this member to be an "event"; "journeys" are the subject of the preceding member. Compare note... [ Continue Reading ]
COUNTRY. field. JESHIMON. the wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROVERBS. Hebrew poems.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORDS. Hebrew. _Baalim._ HIGH PLACES. Compare Numbers 22:41 and Jeremiah 48:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE. Israel. WE HAVE LAID, &C _,_ to end of verse. These two clauses are affected by the "extraordinary points" (see App-31), which necessitates the following rendering of Numbers 21:30, "We have shot them down: Heshbon is destroyed even unto Dibon, The women also even unto Nopha, And the men even u... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT DO, &C. Compare Psalms 135:11.... [ Continue Reading ]