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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Numbers 11:29,30

Oh! what a lovely feature of character doth Moses manifest in this instance! And is it not the wish and prayer of every true follower of the LORD? Romans 10:1. Is not the Reader reminded of an interesting scene in the ministry of JESUS in this transaction? See Luke 9:49.

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See also Numbers 11:29,30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 11:29. _ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?_] Moses, the minister of God, Rebukes our partial love, Who envy at the gifts bestow'd On those _we_ disapprove. We do not our own

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah. Numbers 11:4 THE MIXT MULTITUDE - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE JOURNEY STARTED: ISRAEL'S UNBELIEF, FAILURE AND PUNISHMENT 1. The Departure and the First Failure CHAPTER 10:11-36 _ 1. The cloud moves (Numbers 10:11)_ 2. The standard of the camp of Juda...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NUMBERS 11:4 (JE). THE PEOPLE'S LUST FOR FLESH AND MOSES-' COMPLAINT OF HIS EXCESSIVE BURDEN. This section is a combination of two narratives (from J and E), relating (1) a demand of the people for fl...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ENVIEST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Art thou jealous for me? WOULD GOD. "God" should be in italics. Figure of speech _Eonismos._ App-6. PUT HIS SPIRIT. This is the definition of. t...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 152 JOSHUA’S ENVY REPROVED Numbers 11:27. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    JOSHUA—THE SERVANT OF MOSES, &C.— See Exodus 33:11. Joshua, it should seem, thought that these men's prophesying, or teaching in the camp, tended to make those gifts common, and to disparage Moses in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. BITTER EXPERIENCE AT THE GRAVES OF LUST (KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH), vv. 4-35 TEXT Numbers 11:4. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THERE REMAINED TWO OF THE MEN IN THE CAMP, THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS ELDAD, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER MEDAD: AND THE SPIRIT RESTED UPON THEM; AND THEY WERE OF THEM THAT WERE WRITTEN, BUT WENT NOT O...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A good example of the magnanimity and unselfishness of Moses: see on Numbers 27:15....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD SENDS FIRE – NUMBERS 11:1-3 V1 The people started to complain about their problems. The *LORD heard the

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?-Better, _Art thou zealous for me?_ or, _Art thou displeased on my account?_ (Comp. Numbers 25:13; 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר לֹו֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה הַֽ מְקַנֵּ֥א אַתָּ֖

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE STRAIN OF THE DESERT JOURNEY Numbers 11:1 THE narrative has accompanied the march of Israel but a short way from the mount of God to some spot marked for an encampment by the ark of the covenant,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE GRAVES OF LUST” Numbers 11:26 It is delightful to note the proof of the nobility of Moses' nature in the answer he gave to the tidings concerning Eldad and Medad. They might not be of the design...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we enter upon the second section in the Book of Numbers, in which is revealed the failure of man. The first evidence was discontent, resulting unquestionably from the hardship of life. This was...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE MAGNANIMOUS LEADER_ ‘And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets!’ Numbers 11:29 Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preachin...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    29._And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? _This may be understood in two different ways. Some take it, as if Moses had said, It is no business of yours, if I have suffered any loss: and i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We are now brought to turn our thoughts in another direction-to see the conduct of the people in the wilderness, and alas! what is it except a history of unfaithfulness and rebellion? Let us add, howe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOSES SAID UNTO HIM, ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?.... Lest his authority should be weakened, and his honour lessened, because they began not to prophesy in his presence, and at the tabernacle, and among...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! Ver. 29. That all the Lord's people.] This i...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Num. 11:29. This wish of Moses was fulfilled in the Christian Church, after Christ's ascension; according to the prophecy of Joel; (chap. Joel 2:28, etc.), God put His spirit in His extraordinary gift...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Enviest thou for my sake?_ Art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God's Spirit are imparted to others besides me? Or rather, _Art thou jealous for my sake?_ Art thou afraid that their exerc...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses prayer. 4 The people lust for flesh, and loth Manna. 10 Moses complayneth of his charge. 16 God diuideth his burden vnto seuentie Elders. 31 Quailes are...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? "Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them! As a true servant of God, who was not jealous f...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MOSES IS GIVEN ASSISTANTS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    COMPLAINT ANSWERED BY FIRE (vs.1-3) Israel had reason for profound thanksgiving to the Lord, as believers certainly have today. Yet now they complained (v.1) without any reason for it. It is sad when...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    24-30 We have here the fulfilment of God's word to Moses, that he should have help in the government of Israel. He gave of his Spirit to the seventy elders. They discoursed to the people of the thing...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ENVIEST THOU; art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God are imparted to others besides me? Compare 1 THESSALONIANS 3:26. He saith PROPHETS, not _rulers_, for that he knew was absurd and imp...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Hitherto we have been occupied, in our study of this book, with God's mode of ordering and providing for His people in the wilderness. We have travelled over the first ten Chapter s and seen in them t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 11:29 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) zealous H7065 (H8764) the H5414 (H8799) LORDS H3068 people...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ENDUING OF THE SEVENTY ELDERS (NUMBERS 11:24). The purpose of God in providing the seventy elders would seem to be in order to act as an advisory and supporting council to Moses, and to supervise...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Numbers 11:29 Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preaching and prophesying; and this, at a time of scanty knowledge and rare spiritual illumination, was not without its dangers. So thought J...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Complaints about the manna and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eldad, Medad, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Though God graciously gives us leave to complain to Him when there is cause, yet...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Eldad and Medad do prophesy._ ELDAD AND MEDAD Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preaching and prophesying; and this, at a time of scanty knowledge and rare spiritual illumination, was not...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:4 The people complain about the monotony of their diet of manna. What they really want, however, are the pleasures of EGYPT (vv. Numbers 11:4

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:24 These SEVENTY ELDERS prophesied for only a short time (THEY DID NOT CONTINUE DOING IT), but this was enough to give them credibility as Moses’ assistants. Their prophesyi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 11:1. “_And when the people complained,”_ etc. Margin: “the people were, as it were, complainers.” _Speaker’s Comm_.: “And the people were as those that complai...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION KIBROTH HATTAAVAH (Numbers 11:4). NUMBERS 11:4 THE MIXED MULTITUDE. Hebrew, _ha_-_saphsuph, _the gathered; the rift-raft, or rabble, which had followed the fortunes of Israel out of Egypt...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This time let's turn to Numbers chapter eleven. In reading Numbers eleven through twenty, I see a pattern emerging, a pattern of chronic complaining, as the people are now complaining against the Lord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 14:5; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 3:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Enviest thou for my sake — Art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God are imparted to others besides me? Prophets — He saith prophets, not rulers, for that he knew was absurd and impossible....

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