Numbers 10:1-10
THE USE OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS This section, like the last, is connected with the breaking up of the camp, one of the uses of the silver trumpets being to give the signal for the departure.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE USE OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS This section, like the last, is connected with the breaking up of the camp, one of the uses of the silver trumpets being to give the signal for the departure.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF A WHOLE PIECE] RV 'of beaten work.'... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE GO TO WAR] see e.g. Numbers 31:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Leviticus 23:24; 2 Chronicles 5:12; Ezra 3:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEPARTURE FROM SINAI 12. Paran] see on Exodus 15:22. They do not actually reach Paran till Exodus 12:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOURNEYINGS FROM SINAI TO MOAB (NUMBERS 10:11 TO NUMBERS 22:1) After a stay at Sinai of nearly a year (cp. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1) the signal is given for the breaking up of the camp. This second division of the book of Numbers relates the wanderings in the wilderness, and covers a period ex... [ Continue Reading ]
In Exodus 2:18; Moses's father-in-law is called Beuel and in Numbers 3:1; Numbers 4:18; Jethro. Here Hobab is called the son of Reuel (or Raguel), and therefore apparently the brother-in-law of Moses. But in Judges 4:11 (RM) and perhaps here, too, he is called the father-in-law of Moses. There is th... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE ARK SET FORWARD] i.e. whenever it set forward. Every stage of the journey was begun and ended with this prayer of invocation. Psalms 68 recalls this march of the people through the wilderness with God at their head to ensure victory.... [ Continue Reading ]