THE LAW OF THE INHERITANCE OF DAUGHTERS. JOSHUA APPOINTED AS THE SUCCESS OR OF MOSES 1-11. According to Numbers 26:53 (Cp. Numbers 27:2) the land was to be apportioned to the males. Zelophehad, of the tribe of Manasseh, had died leaving no sons (Numbers 26:33); and his daughters, fearing that they w... [ Continue Reading ]
DIED IN HIS OWN SIN] These words have led Jewish commentators to identify Zelophehad with the man who was stoned for sabbath breaking (Numbers 15:32). But their meaning rather is that Zelophehad had not forfeited his inheritance by any specially heinous act of transgression, but had died the common... [ Continue Reading ]
This command is repeated in Deuteronomy 32:48,. and its fulfilment related in Deuteronomy 34. In the interval before his death, Moses delivered the concluding laws contained in the book of Numbers and the addresses in the book of Deuteronomy. The conquest of the Midianites seems also to have taken p... [ Continue Reading ]
GATHERED UNTO THY PEOPLE] see on Numbers 20:24;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO SANCTIFY ME] see on Numbers 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses stifles his personal feelings of disappointment and grief, and thinks only of the flock he is leaving behind. This noble selfeffacement was conspicuous on other occasions: see Exodus 32:32; Numbers 11:29; Numbers 14:12; If the work goes on, he is content that God should bury the workman: cp. R... [ Continue Reading ]
TO LEAD OUT (to pasture) and to BRING IN (to the fold) is the work of the shepherd: cp. John 10:3; John 10:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPIRIT] i.e. the necessary qualification: see on Exodus 28:3; Exodus 31:4. JOSHUA had no doubt learned much from his close association with Moses as his attendant: see Exodus 24:13; Exodus 32:17; Exodus 33:11; Numbers 11:28. He had also some experience as leader of the army of Israel (Exodus 17:... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE HIM A CHARGE] see Deuteronomy 31:7; Deuteronomy 31:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
URIM] see on Exodus 28:30.... [ Continue Reading ]