Exodus 32:7-35
Go.19:24; 33:1; De 9:12; Da 9:24thy people.1,11corrupted.Ge 6:11,12; De 4:16; 32:5; Jud 2:19; Ho 9:9 have turned.De 9:16; Jud 2:17which I.20:3,4,23These be.4; 1Ki 12:28 I have seen.De 9:13; Jer 13:27; Ho 6:10a stiff-necked.33:3,5; 34:9; De 9:6,13; 10:16; 31:27; 2Ch 30:8; Ne 9:17; Ps 78:8Pr 29:1; Isa 48:4; Zec 7:11,12; Ac 7:51 let me alone.Ge 18:32,33; 32:26-28; Nu 14:19,20; 16:22,45-48; De 9:14,19Jer 14:11; 15:1; Jas 5:16my wrath.11,19; 22:24and I will.Nu 14:12; De 9:14,19 besought.De 9:18-20,26-29; Ps 106:23the Lord his God. Heb. the face of the Lord. why doth.Nu 11:11; 16:22; De 9:18-20; Ps 74:1,2; Isa 63:17; Jer 12:1,2which thou.7 should.Nu 14:13-16; De 9:28; 32:26,27; Jos 7:9; Ps 74:18; 79:9,10Eze 20:9,14,22Turn from.De 13:17; Jos 7:26; Ezr 10:14; Ps 78:38; 85:3repent.14; Ge 6:6; De 32:36; Ps 90:13; 106:45; Am 7:3,6; Jon 3:9; Zec 8:14 Remember.Le 26:42; De 7:8; 9:27; Lu 1:54,55to whom.Ge 22:16; 26:3,4; Heb 6:13I will multiply.Ge 12:2,7; 13:15,16; 15:5,7,18; 26:4; 28:13,14; 35:11,12; 48:16 De 32:26; 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:15; Ps 106:45; Jer 18:8; 26:13,19Joe 2:13; Jon 3:10; 4:2 turned.24:18; De 9:15the testimony.16:34; 40:20; De 5:22; Ps 19:7written.Re 5:1 31:18; 34:1,4; De 9:9-11,15; 10:1; 2Co 3:3,7; Heb 8:10 Joshua had waited patiently during all the forty days, in the place where Moses had left him--below the summit of the mount, at a distance from the people, and out of the way of temptation. Joshua.17:9; 24:13they shouted.18; Ezr 3:11-13; Ps 47:1There is a noise.Jos 6:5,10,16,20; Jud 15:14; 1Sa 4:5,6; 17:20,52; Job 39:25Jer 51:14; Am 1:14; 2:2 being overcome. Heb. weakness. but the.15:1-18; Da 5:4,23 he saw.4-6; De 9:16,17the dancing.15:20; 2Sa 6:14; La 5:15anger.11; Nu 12:3; Mt 5:22; Mr 3:5; 10:14; Eph 4:26brake them.De 9:17; 27:26; Jer 31:32; Zec 11:10,11,14 took the calf.How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold, the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In De 9:21, this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is, melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and stamped it, beat it into thin laminæ, something like our gold leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words {ekkoth,} and {dak,} imply. De 7:5,25; 9:21; 2Ki 23:6,15made the.Pr 1:31; 14:14 Ge 20:9; 26:10; De 13:6-8; 1Sa 26:19; Jos 7:19-26; 1Ki 14:16; 21:222Ki 21:9-11 knowest.14:11; 15:24; 16:2-4,20,28; 17:2-4; De 9:7,24that they are.De 31:27; 1Sa 15:24; Ps 36:4; Pr 4:16 1-4,8 So they.4; Ge 3:12,13; Lu 10:29; Ro 3:10 naked.The term naked may mean either that they were unarmed and defenceless, or ashamed from the consciousness of guilt. 33:4-6; Ge 3:10; Isa 47:3; Ho 2:3; Mic 1:11; Re 3:17,18; 16:15Aaron.De 9:20; 2Ch 28:19shame.Eze 16:63; Da 12:2; Ro 6:21their enemies. Heb. those that rose up against them. Who is on.Jos 5:13; 2Sa 20:11; 2Ki 9:32; Mt 12:30 slay every man.26,29; Nu 25:5,7-12; De 33:8,9; Lu 14:26; 2Co 5:16 children.De 33:9; Mal 2:4-6there fell.Nu 16:32-35,41; 1Co 10:8; Heb 2:2,3 Or, another reading of this verse is: And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord; because every man hath been against his son and against his brother, etc. Moses.Nu 25:11-13; De 13:6-11; 33:9,10; 1Sa 15:18-22; Pr 21:3Joe 2:12-14; Zec 13:3; Mt 10:37Consecrate. Heb. fill your hands. Ye have.31; 1Sa 2:17; 12:20,23; 2Sa 12:9; 2Ki 17:21; Lu 7:47; 15:18peradventure.2Sa 16:12; Am 5:15; Jon 3:9; 2Ti 2:25an atonement.32; Nu 16:47; 25:13; Job 42:7,8; Ro 9:3; Ga 3:13; Jas 5:16 returned.34:28; De 9:18,19sinned.30; Ezr 9:6,7,15; Ne 9:33; Da 9:5,8,11made.20:4,23 if thou.Nu 14:19; Da 9:18,19; Am 7:2; Lu 23:34blot me.Allusion may be made to the registry of births, in which those born of a particular tribe were entered in the list of their respective families under that tribe. This was the book of life; and when any died, his name might be considered as blotted out of this list. But as Moses addressed the Lord, he undoubtedly referred, by faith, to the book of God's remembrance. 10; De 9:14; 25:19; 29:20; Ps 56:8; 69:28; 139:16; Eze 13:9Da 12:1; Ro 9:3; Php 4:3; Re 3:5; 17:8; 21:27; 22:19 sinned.Le 23:30; Ps 69:28; Eze 18:4my book.Ps 109:13,14; Php 4:3; Re 13:8; 20:12 mine Angel.23:20; 33:2,14,15; Nu 20:16; Isa 63:9the day.20:5; Nu 14:27-30; De 32:35; Jer 5:9,29; Am 3:14; Mt 23:35Ro 2:4-6 25; 2Sa 12:9,10; Mt 27:3-7; Ac 1:18; 7:41Numbers 11
1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer.4 The people lust for flesh, and loathe manna.10 Moses complains of his charge.16 God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders, and to give the people flesh for a month.21 Moses' faith is staggered.31 Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth-hattaavah. And when.10:33; 20:2-5; 21:5; Ex 15:23,24; 16:2,3,7,9; 17:2,3; De 9:22La 3:39; 1Co 10:10; Jude 1:16complained. or, were as it were complainers. it displeasedthe Lord. Heb. it was evil in the ears of the Lord. Ge 38:10; 2Sa 11:27; *marg:Jas 5:4and the fire.16:35; Le 10:2; De 32:22; 2Ki 1:12; Job 1:16; Ps 78:21; 106:18Isa 30:33; 33:14; Na 1:5; Mr 9:43-49; Heb 12:29the uttermost.De 25:18 cried.21:7; Ps 78:34,35; Jer 37:3; 42:2; Ac 8:24prayed.14:13-20; Ge 18:23-33; Ex 32:10-14,31,32; 34:9; De 9:19,20Ps 106:23; Isa 37:4; Jer 15:1; Am 7:2-6; Jas 5:16; 1Jo 5:16the fire.16:45-48; Heb 7:26; 1Jo 2:1,2was quenched. Heb. sunk. Taberah. that is, a burning.De 9:22 the mixed.Ex 12:38; Le 24:10,11; Ne 13:3fell a lusting. Heb. lusted a lust. the children.1Co 15:33wept again. Heb. returned and wept. Who shall.Ps 78:18-20; 106:14; Ro 13:14; 1Co 10:6 the fish.Ex 16:3; Ps 17:14; Php 3:19the cucumbers.In Hebrew, {kishshuim,} in Arabic, {kiththa,} Chaldee, {keta,} and Syriac, {kati,} a species of cucumber peculiar to Egypt, smooth, of a longish cylindrical shape, and about a foot long. Prosper Alpinus says that it differs from the common sort by its size, colour, and softness; that its leaves are smaller, whiter, softer, and rounder; its fruit larger, greener, smoother, softer, sweeter, and more easy of digestion than ours. Hasselquist describes it in the same manner; and adds, that it is very little watery, but firm like a melon, sweet and cool to the taste, but not so cold as the watermelon, which is meant by the {avutichim} of the text. 21:5; 2Sa 13:4 the manna.Ex 16:14,15,31; 1Co 1:23,24; Re 2:17colour thereof as the colour of. Heb. eye of it as the eyeof. bdellium. Ge 2:12 the people.Ex 16:16-18; Joh 6:27,33-58baked it.Ex 16:23taste of it.Ex 16:31 Ex 16:13,14; De 32:2; Ps 78:23-25; 105:40 weep throughout.14:1,2; 16:27; 21:5; Ps 106:25the anger.1; De 32:22; Ps 78:21,59; Isa 5:25; Jer 17:4Moses.12:3; 20:10-13; Ps 106:32,33; 139:21; Mr 3:5; 10:14 Wherefore hast thou.The complaint and remonstrance of Moses in these verses serve at once to shew the deeply distressed state of his mind, and the degradation of the minds of the people. 15; Ex 17:4; De 1:12; Jer 15:10,18; 20:7-9,14-18; Mal 3:142Co 11:28wherefore have.Job 10:2; Ps 130:3; 143:2; La 3:22,23,39,40 Carry them.Isa 40:11; Eze 34:23; Joh 10:11as a nursing.Isa 49:15,23; Ga 4:19; 1Th 2:7the land.Ge 13:15; 22:16,17; 26:3; 50:24; Ex 13:5 Mt 15:33; Mr 8:4; 9:23 Ex 18:18; De 1:9-12; Ps 89:19; Isa 9:6; Zec 6:13; 2Co 2:16 kill me.1Ki 19:4; Job 3:20-22; 6:8-10; 7:15; Jon 4:3,8,9; Php 1:20-24Jas 1:4let me not.Jer 15:18; 20:18; Zep 3:15my wretchedness.Two of Dr. Kennicott's manuscripts read, "their wretchedness." The Jerusalem Targum has the same, and adds, by way of explanation, "who are thine own people." seventy.Ge 46:27; Ex 4:29; 24:1,9; Eze 8:11; Lu 10:1,17officers.De 1:15; 16:18; 31:28 I will come.25; 12:5; Ge 11:5; 18:21; Ex 19:11,20; 34:5; Joh 3:13talk with.12:8; Ge 17:3,22; 18:20-22,33I will take.27:18; 1Sa 10:6; 2Ki 2:9,15; Ne 9:20; Isa 44:3; 59:20,21Joe 2:28; Joh 7:39; Ro 8:9; 1Co 2:12; 12:4-11; 1Th 4:8; 1Pe 1:22Jude 1:19they shall.Ex 18:22; Ac 6:3,4 Sanctify.Ge 35:2; Ex 19:10,15; Jos 7:13ye have wept.1,4-6; Ex 16:3-7; Jud 21:2it was well.4,5; 14:2,3; Ac 7:39 About a year before this, the people had been thus feasted for one day (Ex 16:13); but now such plenty was to be afforded them for a whole month, and they should use it so greedily, that at last they should entirely loathe the food for which they had so inordinately craved. 19 whole month. Heb. month of days.Ex 16:8,13and it.21:5; Ps 78:27-30; 106:15; Pr 27:7despised.1Sa 2:30; 2Sa 12:10; Mal 1:6; Ac 13:41; 1Th 4:8 1:46; 2:32; Ge 12:2; Ex 12:37; 38:26 There is certainly a considerable measure of weakness and unbelief manifested in these complaints and questions of Moses; but his conduct appears at the same time so very simple, honest, and affectionate, that we cannot but admire it, while we wonder that he had not stronger confidence in that God, whose stupendous miracles he had so often witnessed in Egypt. 2Ki 7:2; Mt 15:33; Mr 6:37; 8:4; Lu 1:18,34; Joh 6:6,7,9 Is the Lord's.That is, "Is the power of the Lord diminished?" That power which has been so signally displayed on your behalf, and which is as unchangeable as it is unlimited. Ge 18:14; Ps 78:41; Isa 50:2; 59:1; Mic 2:7; Mt 19:26; Lu 1:37thou shalt.23:19; 2Ki 7:2,17-19; Jer 44:28,29; Eze 12:25; 24:14; Mt 24:35 gathered.16,26 came down.17; 12:5; Ex 34:5; 40:38; Ps 99:7; Lu 9:34,35took.17; 2Ki 2:15; Jas 1:17gave it.From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre. they prophesied.By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God. 1Sa 10:5,6,10; 19:20-24; Jer 36:5,6; Joe 2:28,29; Ac 2:17,18Ac 11:28; 21:9-11; 1Co 11:4,5; 14:1-3,32; 2Pe 1:21 went not out.Ex 3:11; 4:13,14; 1Sa 10:22; 20:26; Jer 1:6; 36:5 27 Joshua.Ex 17:9My Lord.Mr 9:38,39; Lu 9:49,50; Joh 3:26 Enviest.1Co 3:3,21; 13:4; Php 2:3; Jas 3:14,15; 4:5; 5:9; 1Pe 2:1would.Ac 26:29; 1Co 14:5; Php 1:15-18that the.Mt 9:37,38; Lu 10:2 30 a wind.Ex 10:13,19; 15:10; Ps 135:7and brought.Ex 16:13; Ps 78:26-29; 105:40quails.That the word {selav} means the quail, we have already had occasion to observe; to which we subjoin the authority of Mr. Maundrell, who visited Naplosa, (the ancient Sichem,) where the Samaritans live. Mr. Maundrell asked their chief priest what sort of animal he took the {selav} to be. He answered, they were a sort of fowls; and, by the description Mr. Maundrell perceived he meant the same kind with our quails. a day's journey. Heb. the way of a day. and as it were twocubits. That is, as the Vulgate renders, {Volabantque in aëre duobus cubitis altitudine super terram,} "and they flew in the air, at the height of two cubits above the ground." homers.Ex 16:36; Eze 45:11 And while.Ps 78:30,31; 106:14,15smote.16:49; 25:9; De 28:27 Kibroth-hattaavah. that is, the graves of lust.33:16; De 9:22; 1Co 10:6 journeyed.33:17unto Hazeroth.12:16; De 1:1abode at. Heb they were in, etc.Numbers 14
1 The people murmur at the news.6 Joshua and Caleb labour to still them.11 God threatens them.13 Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon.26 The murmurers are debarred from entering into the land.36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague.40 The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten. 11:1-4; De 1:45 murmured.16:41; Ex 15:24; 16:2,3; 17:3; De 1:27; Ps 106:24,45; 1Co 10:10Php 2:14,15; Jude 1:16Would.28,29; 11:15; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:11; 7:15,16; Jon 4:3,8 the Lord.Ps 78:40; Jer 9:3our wives.31,32 De 17:16; 28:68; Ne 9:16,17; Lu 17:32; Ac 7:39; Heb 10:38,39; 11:152Pe 2:21,22 16:4,22,45; Ge 17:3; Le 9:24; Jos 5:14; 7:10; 1Ki 18:391Ch 21:16; Eze 9:8; Da 10:9; Mt 26:39; Re 4:10; 5:14; 7:11 Joshua.24,30,38; 13:6,8,30rent their clothes.Ge 37:29,34; 44:13; Jos 7:6; Jud 11:35; 2Sa 3:31; 2Ki 18:37Job 1:20; Joe 2:12,13; Mt 26:65 an exceeding good land.13:27; De 1:25; 6:10,11; 8:7-9 delight.De 10:15; 2Sa 15:25,26; 22:20; 1Ki 10:9; Ps 22:8; 147:10,11Isa 62:4; Jer 32:41; Zep 3:17; Ro 8:31a land which.13:27 Only rebel.De 9:7,23,24; Isa 1:2; 63:10; Da 9:5,9; Php 1:27neither.De 7:18; 20:3are bread.24:8; De 32:42; Ps 14:4; 74:14defence. Heb. shadow.{Tzillam,} a metaphor highly expressive of protection and support in the sultry eastern countries. (See the Parallel Passages.) The Arabs and Persians use the same word to express the same thing; using the expressions, "May the shadow {zulli} of thy prosperity be extended." "May the shadow of thy prosperity be spread over the heads of thy well-wishers." And in an elegant distich, "May your protection never be removed from my head; may God extend your shadow {zullikem} eternally." The loftiest and most esteemed title of the sultan, says Thornton, because given him by the kings of Persia, is {zil ullah,} shadow of God. Ps 91:1; 121:5; Isa 30:2,3; 32:2; Jer 48:45the Lord.Ge 48:21; Ex 33:16; De 7:21; 20:1-4; 31:6,8; Jos 1:5; Jud 1:222Ch 13:12; 15:2; 20:17; 32:8; Ps 46:1,2,7,11; Isa 8:9,10; 41:10Mt 1:23; Ro 8:31fear them not.Isa 41:14 But all.Ex 17:4; 1Sa 30:6; Mt 23:37; Ac 7:52,59And the.16:19,42; 20:6; Ex 16:7,10; 24:16,17; 40:34; Le 9:23 How long will this.27; Ex 10:3; 16:28; Pr 1:22; Jer 4:14; Ho 8:5; Zec 8:14Mt 17:17provoke.23; De 9:7,8,22,23; Ps 95:8; Heb 3:8,16believe me.De 1:32; Ps 78:22,32,41,42; 106:24; Mr 9:19; Joh 10:38; 12:37Joh 15:24; Heb 3:18 smite.16:46-49; 25:9; Ex 5:3; 2Sa 24:1,12-15will make.Ex 32:10 And Moses said unto the Lord.From this verse to ver. 19, inclusive, we have the words of the earnest intercession of Moses: they need no explanation; they are full of simplicity and energy. Then the.Ex 32:12; De 9:26-28; 32:27; Jos 7:8,9; Ps 106:23; Eze 20:9,14 they have.Ex 15:14; Jos 2:9,10; 5:1art seen.12:8; Ge 32:30; Ex 33:11; De 5:4; 34:10; Joh 1:18; 14:9; 1Co 13:121Jo 3:2thy cloud.9:15-21; 10:34; Ex 13:21,22; 40:38; Ne 9:12,19; Ps 78:14; 105:39 Jud 6:16 De 9:28; 32:26,27; Jos 7:9 Mic 3:8; Mt 9:6,8 long-suffering.Ex 34:6,7; Ps 103:8; 145:8; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18; Na 1:2,3; Ro 3:24-26Ro 5:21; Eph 1:7,8visiting.Ex 20:5; 34:7; Jer 23:2 Pardon.Ex 32:32; 34:9; 1Ki 8:34; Ps 51:1,2; Eze 20:8,9; Da 9:19according.Isa 55:7; Tit 3:4-7and as thou.Ex 32:10-14; 33:17; Ps 78:38; 106:7,8,45; Jon 3:10; 4:2; Mic 7:18Jas 5:15; 1Jo 5:14-16until now. or, hitherto. 20 as truly.De 32:40; Isa 49:18; Jer 22:24; Eze 5:11; 18:3; 33:11,27; Zep 2:9all the.Ps 72:19; Hab 2:14; Mt 6:10 which have.11; De 1:31-35; Ps 95:9-11; 106:26; Heb 3:17,18tempted.Ex 17:2; Ps 95:9; 106:14; Mal 3:15; Mt 4:7; 1Co 10:9; Heb 3:9ten times.Ge 31:7,41; Job 19:3 Surely they shall not see. Heb. If they see.26:64; 32:11; De 1:35-45; Ne 9:23; Ps 95:11; 106:26; Eze 20:15Heb 3:17,18; 4:3 my servant.6-9; 13:30; 26:65; De 1:36; Jos 14:6-14another spirit.Caleb had another spirit; not only a bold, generous, courageous, noble, and heroic spirit, but the Spirit and influence of God, which thus raised him above human inquietudes and earthly fears. Therefore he followed God fully; literally, "and he filled after me:" God shewed him the way he was to take and the line of conduct he was to pursue, and he filled up this line, and in all things followed the will of his Maker. followed me.32:11,12; De 6:5; Jos 14:8,9; 1Ch 29:9,18; 2Ch 25:2; Ps 119:80,145Pr 23:26; Ac 11:23; Eph 6:6; Col 3:23 the Amalekites.13:29turn you.4; De 1:40; Ps 81:11-13; Pr 1:31 26 How long.11; Ex 16:28; Mt 17:7; Mr 9:19I have heard.Ex 16:12; 1Co 10:10 As truly.21,23; 26:64,65; 32:11; De 1:35; Ps 90:8,9; Heb 3:17as ye have.2 carcases.32,33; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5all that were.1:45; 26:64 sware. Heb. lifted up my hand.Ge 14:22save Caleb.38; 26:65; 32:12; De 1:36-38 little ones.26:6,64; De 1:39ye said.3know.Their children, by possessing Canaan, knew what a good land their fathers had despised. the land.Ge 25:34; Ps 106:24; Pr 1:25,30; Mt 22:5; Ac 13:41; Heb 12:16,17 29; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17 shall wander in the wilderness. or, feed.This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks. 32:13; Jos 14:10; Ps 107:4,40forty years.33:38; De 1:3; 2:14bear.5:31; Jer 3:1,2; Eze 23:35,45-49; Ho 9:1 After.13:25; 2Ch 36:21the number.Ps 95:10; Eze 4:6; Da 9:24; Re 11:3shall ye bear.18:23; Le 20:19; Ps 38:4; Eze 14:10ye shall.1Ki 8:56; Ps 77:8; 105:42; Jer 18:9,10; La 3:31-33; Heb 4:1breach of promise. or, altering of my purpose.{Tenooathi,} rather, my failure, or disannulling, from {noo,} to fail, disannul; for as they had broken their engagements, God was no longer held by his covenant. De 31:16,17; 1Sa 2:30; Zec 11:10 I will surely.23:19this evil.27-29; 26:65; 1Co 10:5,11; Heb 3:19 13:31-33 those men.Thus ten of the twelve who searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot. In commemoration of this event, the Jews, to this day, celebrate a fast, on the seventh day of the month Elul. died.12; 16:49; 25:9; Jer 28:16,17; 29:32; 1Co 10:10; Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5 26:65; Jos 14:6-10 mourned greatly.Ex 33:4; Pr 19:3; Isa 26:16; Mt 8:12; Heb 12:17 rose up.De 1:41; Ec 9:3; Mt 7:21-23; 26:11,12; Lu 13:25for we have sinned.We are sensible of our sin, and repent of it; and are now ready to do as Caleb and Joshua exhorted us. Or, though we have sinned, yet we hope God will make good his promise. do ye.25; 2Ch 24:20but it shall.Job 4:9; Jer 2:37; 32:5 De 1:42; Jos 7:8,12; Ps 44:1,2-11 25; 13:29; Le 26:17; De 28:25because.Jud 16:20; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Isa 63:10; Ho 9:12 they presumed.This miserable people a short time ago, thought that, though Omnipotence was with them, they could not conquer and possess the land! Now they imagine, that though God himself go not with them, yet they shall be sufficient to drive out the inhabitants, and take possession of their country! Man is ever supposing he can do all things, or do nothing: he is therefore sometimes presumptuous, and at other times in despair. 15:30; De 1:43the ark.10:33; 1Sa 4:3-11 the Amalekites.43; Ex 17:16; De 1:44; 32:30; Jos 7:5,11,12Hormah.21:3; Jud 1:17Numbers 16
1 The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.23 Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents.31 The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others.36 The censers are reserved to holy use.41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron.46 Aaron by incense stays the plague. Korah.26:9,10; 27:3; Ex 6:18,21; Jude 1:11sons of Reuben.Ge 49:3,4; 1Ch 5:1,2took men.As the word men is not in the text, some read "took counsel;" and some "took courage." Houbigant renders {yikkach, rebellionem fecerunt,} "they rebelled;" which scarcely any rule of criticism can ever justify. Dr. Geddes' translation is, "Another insurrection was raised against Moses by Korah," etc. Others think that it may mean, "behaved with insolence." But, as Dr. A. Clarke observes, the verb {wyyikkach,} "and he took" which though at the end of the sentence in English, is the first word in Hebrew, is not in the plural, but the singular; and hence cannot be applied to the acts of all these chiefs. In every part of the Scripture, where this rebellion is referred to, it is attributed to Korah, therefore the verb here belongs to him; and the whole verse should be translated, "Now Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, he took even Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, son of Peleth, son of Reuben, and they rose up," etc.; reading, with some MSS., the Samaritan, and Septuagint, {ben,} son, instead of {beney,} sons. famous.26:9; Ge 6:4; 1Ch 5:24; 12:30; Eze 16:14; 23:10 gathered.11; 12:1,2; 14:1-4; Ps 106:16; Ac 7:39,51Ye take too much upon you. Heb. It is much for you. allthe. Ex 19:6; Ezr 9:2; Isa 1:11-16; Jer 7:3-12; Mt 3:9,10; Ro 2:28,29the Lord.14:14; 35:34; Ex 29:45,46; Ps 68:17 45; 14:5; 20:6; Jos 7:6 the Lord.Mal 3:18; 2Ti 2:19who is holy.3; Le 21:6-8,12-15; Isa 61:5,6; 1Pe 2:5-9; Re 1:6; 5:9,10will cause.Ex 28:43; Le 10:3; Ps 65:4; Eze 40:46; 44:15,16; Eph 2:13Heb 10:19-22; 12:14even him.17:5; Ex 28:1; Le 8:2; 1Sa 2:28; Ps 105:26; Joh 15:16; Ac 1:2,24Ac 13:2; 15:7; 22:14; 2Ti 2:3,4 35-40,46-48; Le 10:1; 16:12,13; 1Ki 18:21-23 that the man.3,5; Eph 1:4; 2Th 2:13; 1Pe 2:9too much.3; 1Ki 18:17,18; Mt 21:23-27 8 Seemeth it but.13; Ge 30:15; 1Sa 18:23; 2Sa 7:19; Isa 7:13; Eze 34:18; 1Co 4:3separated.1:53; 3:41-45; 8:14-16; 18:2-6; De 10:8; 2Ch 35:3; Ne 12:44Eze 44:10,11; Ac 13:2 and seek.Pr 13:10; Mt 20:21,22; Lu 22:24; Ro 12:10; Php 2:3; 3Jo 1:9 against.3; 1Sa 8:7; Lu 10:16; Joh 13:20; Ro 13:2what is Aaron.Ex 16:7,8; 17:2; Ac 5:4; 1Co 3:5 Pr 29:9; Isa 3:5; 1Pe 2:13,14; Jude 1:8 a small.9out of a.11:5; Ex 1:11,22; 2:23to kill.20:3,4; Ex 16:3; 17:3thou make.Ex 2:14; Ps 2:2,3; Lu 19:14; Ac 7:25-27,35 Moreover.36:8-10; Ex 3:8,17; Le 20:24put out. Heb. bore out. very wroth.12:3; Ex 32:19; Mt 5:22; Mr 3:5; Eph 4:26Respect.6,7; Ge 4:4,5; Isa 1:10-15I have not.Though Moses was their ruler, under God, yet, so far from oppressing them, he had not imposed the smallest tax, nor taken, as a present, so much as an ass from one of them. The common present that is now made to the great, in these countries, is a horse; but there is reason to believe, that an ass might formerly have answered the same purpose. "If it is a visit of ceremony from a {bashaw,}" says Dr. Russell, "or other person in power, a fine horse, sometimes with furniture, or some such valuable present, is made to him at his departure." As asses were esteemed no dishonourable beasts for the saddle, Sir. J. Chardin, in his MS., supposes, that when Samuel disclaimed having taken the ass of any one, (1 Sa 12:3,) he is to be understood of not having taken any ass for his riding. In the same light, he considers this similar declaration of Moses. His reason is "asses being then esteemed very honourable creatures for riding on, (ch. 22:21, 30. Jud 5:10. 2 Sa 16:2,) as they are at this very time in Persia, being rode with saddles." 1Sa 12:3,4; Ac 20:33,34; 1Co 9:15; 2Co 1:12; 7:2; 12:14-171Th 2:10 Be thou.6,7before.1Sa 12:3,7; 2Ti 2:14 1Sa 12:7 18 Korah.1,2and the glory.42; 12:5; 14:10; Ex 16:7,10; Le 9:6,23 20 Separate.Ge 19:15-22; Jer 5:16; Ac 2:40; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:6,7; Re 18:4that I may.45; 14:12,15; Ex 32:10; 33:5; Ps 73:19; Isa 37:36; Heb 12:28,29 they fell.4,45; 14:5the God.27:16; Job 12:10; Ec 12:7; Isa 57:16; Zec 12:1; Heb 12:9one man sin.Ge 18:23-25,32; Jos 7:1-26; 2Sa 24:1,17; Ro 5:18; 1Co 13:7 23 21It should seem that Dathan and Abiram had set up a spacious tabernacle in the midst of the tents of their families, where they kept court, met in council, and hung out their flag of defiance against Moses; it is here called the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. There, as in the place of rendezvous, Dathan and Abiram stayed, when Korah and his friends went up to the tabernacle of the Lord, waiting the issue of their trial; but here we are told how they had their business done, before that trial was over. God will take what method he pleases in his judgments. 11:16,17,25,30 Depart, I pray you.The rebels, with all that belonged to them, were, as an accursed thing, devoted to utter destruction. (Le 27:28, 29. Jos 7:13-15, 23-26.) The people therefore were forbidden to touch anything belonging to them; that they might enter a solemn protest against their wickedness, acknowledge the justice of their punishment, and express their fear of being involved in it. 21-24; Ge 19:12-14; De 13:17; Isa 52:11; Mt 10:14; Ac 8:20; 13:512Co 6:17; 1Ti 5:22; Re 18:4 and stood.2Ki 9:30,31; Job 9:4; 40:10,11; Pr 16:18; 18:12; Isa 28:14 Hereby.Ex 3:12; 4:1-9; 7:9; De 18:22; Zec 2:9; 4:9; Joh 5:36; 11:42; 14:11for I have.{Kee lo millibbee,} "and that not out of my heart." It was not of my own device or contrivance. It was not out of an ambitious desire to be great myself that I took upon me the government, nor out of private affection to my brother, that I appointed him and his family to the priesthood. of mine.24:13; 1Ki 18:36; Jer 23:16; Eze 13:17; Joh 5:30; 6:38 the common, etc. Heb. as every man dieth. visited.Ex 20:5; 32:34; Job 35:15; Isa 10:3; Jer 5:9; La 4:22the Lord.1Ki 22:28; 2Ch 18:27 make a new thing.Heb. create a creature; {wëim beriah yivra Yehowah,} "And if Jehovah should create a creation," i.e., do such a thing as was never done before. Job 31:3; Isa 28:21; 43:19; 45:7,12; Jer 31:22and they.33; Ps 55:15 26:10,11; 27:3; De 11:6; Ps 106:17,18 the earth.30; Ge 4:11; Isa 5:14; Re 12:16all the.17; 26:11; 27:3; 1Ch 6:22,37; Ps 84:1; 85:1; 88:1; *titles into the.Ps 9:15; 55:23; 69:15; 143:7; Isa 14:9,15; Eze 32:18,30they perished.Jude 1:11 fled.Isa 33:3; Zec 14:5; Re 6:15-17Lest.17:12,13 And there.11:1; 26:10; Le 10:2; Ps 106:18two hundred.2,17 36 the censers.7,18hallowed.{Kadashoo,} consecrated, i.e., to the service of God, though in this instance, improperly employed. Le 27:28 sinners.1Ki 2:23; Pr 1:18; 8:36; 20:2; Hab 2:10a sign.40; 17:10; 26:10; Eze 14:8; 1Co 10:11; 2Pe 2:6 39 that no.3:10,38; 18:4-7; Le 22:10; 2Ch 26:18-20; Jude 1:11come near.1Ki 13:1-3; 2Ch 26:16-21 on the morrow.It is not unlikely, that the people persuaded themselves that Moses and Aaron had used some cunning in this business and that the earthquake and fire were artificial; for, had they discerned the hand of God in this punishment, they would scarcely have dared the anger of the Lord in the very face of his justice. And while they thus absurdly imputed this judgement to Moses and Aaron, they impiously called the persons, thus perishing in their rebellion, "the people of the Lord!" all the.1-7; 14:2; Ps 106:13,23,25-48; Isa 26:11Ye have.3; 2Sa 16:7,8; 1Ki 18:17; Jer 37:13,14; 38:4; 43:3; Am 7:10; Mt 5:11Ac 5:28; 21:28; 2Co 6:8 when the.19the glory.19; 14:10; 20:6; Ex 16:7,10; 24:16; 40:34,35; Le 9:23 43 44 Get you up.21,24,26And they.22; 20:6; 1Ch 21:16; Mt 26:39 from off.Le 9:24; 10:1; 16:12,13; Isa 6:6,7; Ro 5:9,10; Heb 7:25-27; 9:25,26Re 8:3-5and put.Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11an atonement.Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2there is wrath.1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them. and ran.Mt 5:44; Ro 12:21and behold.Ps 106:29and he put.46; De 33:10,11; Isa 53:10-12 What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward. 18,35; 25:8-11; 2Sa 24:16,17,25; 1Ch 21:26,27; 1Th 1:101Ti 2:5,6; Heb 7:24,25; Jas 5:16; Joh 5:14 fourteen thousand.32-35; 25:9; 1Ch 21:14; Heb 2:1-3; 10:28,29; 12:25 43; 1Ch 21:26-30Numbers 25
1 Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry.6 Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi.10 God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood.16 The Midianites are to be vexed. Shittim.33:49; Jos 2:1; 3:1; Mic 6:5the people.31:15,16; Ec 7:26; 1Co 10:8 they called.Ex 34:15,16; Jos 22:17; 1Ki 11:1-8; Ps 106:28; Ho 9:10; 1Co 10:201Co 10:27,28; 2Co 6:16,17; Re 2:14bowed.Ex 20:5; 23:24; Jos 23:7,16; 1Ki 19:18 joined.5; De 4:3,4; Jos 22:17; Ps 106:28,29; Ho 9:10the anger.Jos 22:17; Jud 2:14,20; Ps 90:11; Jer 17:4 all the heads.14,15,18; Ex 18:25; De 4:3; Jos 22:17; 23:2and hang.Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the Samaritan and Hebrew texts must be united to make the sense of this verse complete: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto all the heads of the people; and let them slay the men that were joined to Baal-peor; and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun," etc. De 13:6-9,13,15; 21:23; 2Sa 21:6,9; Es 7:9,10that the fierce.11; De 13:17; Jos 7:25,26; Ps 85:3,4; Jon 3:9 judges.Ex 18:21,25,26Slay ye.Ex 22:20; 32:27,28; De 13:6,9,13,15; 17:3-5; 1Ki 18:40 a Midianitish.14,15; 22:4; 31:2,9-16in the sight of Moses.15:30,31; De 29:19-21; Jer 3:3; 8:12; 36:23; 42:15-18; 43:4-7Jer 44:16,17; 2Pe 2:13-15; Jude 1:13weeping.Jud 2:4; Ezr 9:1-4; 10:6-9; Isa 22:12; Eze 9:4-6; Joe 2:17 Phinehas.Ex 6:25; Jos 22:30,31; Jud 20:28a javelin.1Sa 18:10,11; 19:9 thrust.5,11; Ps 106:29-31So the plague.16:46-48; 2Sa 24:25; 1Ch 21:22 St. Paul reckons only 23,000: Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1,000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination, (ver. 4,) as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter. 4,5; 16:49,50; De 4:3,4; 1Co 10:8 10 turned my.Jos 7:25,26; 2Sa 21:14; Ps 106:23; Joh 3:36for my sake. Heb. with my zeal.2Co 11:2that I.Ex 22:5; 34:14; De 4:24; 29:20; 32:16,21; Jos 24:19; 1Ki 14:22Ps 78:58; Eze 16:38; Na 1:2; Zep 1:18; 3:8; 1Co 10:22 13:29; Mal 2:4,5; 3:1 his seed.1Sa 2:30; 1Ki 2:27; 1Ch 6:4-15,50-53an everlasting.Ex 40:15; Isa 61:6; Jer 33:18,22; Heb 7:11,17,18; 1Pe 2:5,9Re 1:6zealous.1Ki 19:10,14; Ps 69:9; 106:31; 119:139; Joh 2:17; Ac 22:3-5Ro 10:2-4atonement.Ex 32:30; Jos 7:12; 2Sa 21:3; Heb 2:17; 1Jo 2:2 a prince.4,5; 2Ch 19:7chief house. Heb. house of a father. the Simeonites.1:23; 26:14 Zur.31:8; Jos 13:21 16 Balaam's counsel seems to have been first given to Balak, king of Moab; but probably the Midianitish women, especially of the higher ranks, as Cozbi was, were the principal tempters; and the nation of Midian seems to have come into the execrable measure more generally and heartily than that of Moab: they were therefore first selected to be made examples of, for a warning to the Moabites, who were spared at this time. 31:2; Re 18:6 vex you.31:15,16; Ge 26:10; Ex 32:21,35; Re 2:14beguiled.Ge 3:13; 2Co 11:3; 2Pe 2:14,15,18which.8Ezekiel 20:13
rebelled.8; Ex 16:28; 32:8; Nu 14:22; De 9:12-24; 31:27; 1Sa 8:8Ne 9:16-18; Ps 78:40,41; 95:8-11; 106:13-33; Isa 63:10and they.16,24; Le 26:15,43; 2Sa 12:9; Pr 1:25; 13:13; Am 2:4; 1Th 4:8Heb 10:28,29which.11and my.21; Ex 16:27,28; Nu 15:31-36; Isa 56:6I said.8,21; Ex 32:10; Nu 14:11,12,29; 16:20,21,45; 26:25; De 9:8Ps 106:23Ezekiel 20:21
the children.Nu 21:5; 25:1-8; De 9:23,24; 31:27; Ps 106:29-33; Ac 13:18if a man.11,13I would.8,13; 21:31; 2Ch 34:21,25; Re 16:1accomplish.7:8; 13:15; La 4:11; Da 11:36
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