Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 10:21
And the Kohathites set forward, (h) bearing the sanctuary: and (i) [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came.
(h) Upon their shoulders.
(i) The Merarites and Gershonites.
And the Kohathites set forward, (h) bearing the sanctuary: and (i) [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came.
(h) Upon their shoulders.
(i) The Merarites and Gershonites.
THE DEPARTURE FROM SINAI. The stay at Sinai lasted about 11 months (_cf. Numbers 10:11_ with Exodus 19:1), and the people now moved to the wilderness of Paran (the modern El Tih), N. of Sinai. The ord...
THE OTHER: i.e. the Gershonites and Merarites. See Numbers 10:17....
AND THE OTHER DID SET UP THE TABERNACLE— _The other_ is not in the text: Calmet explains it, "that the Kohathites set up the tabernacle against _they, i.e._ the priests, arrived." Houbigant renders it...
Part Two: Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea (Numbers 10:11-36; Numbers 11; Numbers 12; Numbers 13; Nu
_AND THEY FIRST TOOK THEIR JOURNEY ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD BY THE HAND OF MOSES._ They first took their journey ... by the hand of Moses. It is probable that Moses, on the breaking u...
THE DEPARTURE FROM SINAI 12. Paran] see on Exodus 15:22. They do not actually reach Paran till Exodus 12:16....
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 s
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 THE TWO *TRUMPETS – NUMBERS 10:1-10 V1 The *LORD said to Moses, V2 ‘Make two *trumpets. Make them
וְ נָסְעוּ֙ הַ קְּהָתִ֔ים נֹשְׂאֵ֖י הַ מִּקְד
3. THE ORDER OF MARCH Numbers 10:11 The difficulties connected with the order of march prescribed in this passage have been often and fully rehearsed. According to the enumeration given in chapter 2,...
“COME THOU WITH US” Numbers 10:17 The invitation of Moses to Hobab is one that we may all give to our friends: “We are journeying to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.” “We should always be on...
The use of trumpets in the history of the people is full of interest and here we find instructions concerning it. They were intended to call the people to attention, that led to obedience. The blast o...
Sanctuary, or holy vessels. They never set them down, till they arrived at the place where the tabernacle was to be fixed. Hebrew may be, "the sons of Caath set forward, bearing the vessels of the san...
No doubt the order, here pointed out by divine authority, was not without particular significance. But it should seem, from a passage in the Psalms, that each tribe had a special regard to the divine...
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
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...
Chapter 10 speaks of the silver trumpets which served for calling the assembly of the people, and for the journeying of the camps, but which serve also for other purposes. It was the testimony of God,...
AND THE KOHATHITES SET FORWARD,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psalms 80:2; BEARING THE SAN...
_The others_ The Gershonites and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of its...
1 The vse of the siluer Trumpets. 11 The Israelites remoue from Sinai to Paran. 14 The order of their march. 29 Hobab is intreated by Moses not to leaue them. 33 The blessing of Moses at the remoo...
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the Sanctuary, the sacred furniture and the holy vessels, Numbers 7:9; AND THE OTHER, the Gershonites and the Merarites, DID SET UP THE TABERNACLE AGAINST THEY...
THE DEPARTURE FROM SINAI...
TWO SILVER TRUMPETS (vs.1-10) We have seen in the cloud and the fire the providential guidance of God over His people. Yet we are not left to depend totally upon this, for now the trumpets speak of t...
THE OTHER: That is, the Gershorates, and the Merarites, See v. 17...
11-28 After the Israelites had continued nearly a year at mount Sinai, and all was settled respecting their future worship, they began their march to Canaan. True religion begins with the knowledge o...
THE OTHER, i.e. the Gershonites and Merarites, as is evident both from their work and office, which was to take down and set up the tabernacle, NUMBERS 3:25,26 NUMBERS 4:22; and from NUMBERS 10:17, wh...
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them; that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of th...
Numbers 10:21 Kohathites H6956 out H5265 (H8804) carrying H5375 (H8802) things H4720 tabernacle H4908 prepared...
THE LEVITES WHO BORE THE HOLY THINGS (NUMBERS 10:21) Numbers 10:21 ‘And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the others set up the tabernacle in readiness for their coming.' Nex...
CONTENTS: The first march of the camp. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: Those who have given themselves up to the leading of God's Word and Spirit, steer a safe course and so long a...
Numbers 10:2. _Two trumpets,_ for the two sons of Aaron. We also read that one hundred and twenty priests had each of them a trumpet. 2 Chronicles 5:12. Numbers 10:10. _Ye shall blow with the trumpets...
_The standard of the camp._ THE DIVINE STANDARD TO BE MAINTAINED There are few things in which we are more prone to fail than in the maintenance of the Divine standard when human failure has set in....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 10:1. Instructions for signalling the movements of the camp are properly inserted here as one of the necessary preliminaries for the march which was about to co...
EXPOSITION THE ORDER OF MARCH FROM SINAI (Numbers 10:11-4). NUMBERS 10:11 On THE TWENTIETH DAY of THE SECOND MONTH. This answered a
Then in chapter ten, he was ordered to make two silver trumpets. And these silver trumpets were to be used for calling an assembly of the people together, or they were to be used at the time of battle...
1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 15:2; Numbers 2:17; Numbers 3:27;...
The others — The Gershonites, and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of it...