Num 16-17, Num 20-21, Deu 2:25-37, 8:4, Neh 9:12-15, 18-22 | TSK | STEP | The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents. The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others. The censers are reserved to holy use. Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron. Aaron by incense stays the plague. Korah. sons of Reuben. took 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.

Numbers 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 1:11

sons of Reuben.

Ge 49:3,4; 1Ch 5:1,2

took 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 7:39,51

Ye 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 2:28,29

the 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 2:19

who is holy.

3; Le 21:6-8,12-15; Isa 61:5,6; 1Pe 2:5-9; Re 1:6; 5:9,10

will cause.

Ex 28:43; Le 10:3; Ps 65:4; Eze 40:46; 44:15,16; Eph 2:13

Heb 10:19-22; 12:14

even him.

17:5; Ex 28:1; Le 8:2; 1Sa 2:28; Ps 105:26; Joh 15:16; Ac 1:2,24

Ac 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 2:9

too much.

3; 1Ki 18:17,18; Mt 21:23-27

Seemeth it but.

13; Ge 30:15; 1Sa 18:23; 2Sa 7:19; Isa 7:13; Eze 34:18; 1Co 4:3

separated.

1:53; 3:41-45; 8:14-16; 18:2-6; De 10:8; 2Ch 35:3; Ne 12:44

Eze 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 13:2

what 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.

out of a.

11:5; Ex 1:11,22; 2:23

to kill.

20:3,4; Ex 16:3; 17:3

thou 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 20:24

put out. Heb. bore out.

very wroth.

12:3; Ex 32:19; Mt 5:22; Mr 3:5; Eph 4:26

Respect.

6,7; Ge 4:4,5; Isa 1:10-15

I 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; 12:14-17

Be thou.

before.

Korah.

and the glory.

42; 12:5; 14:10; Ex 16:7,10; Le 9:6,23

Separate.

Ge 19:15-22; Jer 5:16; Ac 2:40; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:6,7; Re 18:4

that 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; 14:5

the God.

27:16; Job 12:10; Ec 12:7; Isa 57:16; Zec 12:1; Heb 12:9

one man sin.

Ge 18:23-25,32; Jos 7:1-26; 2Sa 24:1,17; Ro 5:18; 1Co 13:7

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; 13:51

2Co 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; 14:11

for 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 4:22

the 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 31:22

and 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 12:16

all 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 32:18,30

they perished.

Jude 1:11

fled.

Isa 33:3; Zec 14:5; Re 6:15-17

Lest.

17:12,13

And there.

11:1; 26:10; Le 10:2; Ps 106:18

two hundred.

2,17

the censers.

7,18

hallowed.{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 2:10

a sign.

40; 17:10; 26:10; Eze 14:8; 1Co 10:11; 2Pe 2:6

that no.

3:10,38; 18:4-7; Le 22:10; 2Ch 26:18-20; Jude 1:11

come 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 26:11

Ye have.

3; 2Sa 16:7,8; 1Ki 18:17; Jer 37:13,14; 38:4; 43:3; Am 7:10; Mt 5:11

Ac 5:28; 21:28; 2Co 6:8

when the.

the glory.

19; 14:10; 20:6; Ex 16:7,10; 24:16; 40:34,35; Le 9:23

Get you up.

21,24,26

And 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; 9:25,26

Re 8:3-5

and put.

Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement.

Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2

there is wrath.

1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29

the 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 12:21

and behold.

Ps 106:29

and 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 1:10

1Ti 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 21:26-30

Numbers 17

1 Aaron,s rod, among all the rods of the tribes, only flourishes.

10 It is left for a monument against the rebels.

a rod.The word {matteh} signifies a staff, or sceptre, which the prince or chief of each tribe bore, and which was the sign of office or royalty among almost all the people of the earth.

all their princes.

1:5-16; 2:3-30; 10:14-27

twelve rods.

Ge 49:10; Ex 4:2,17; Ps 110:2; 125:3; Eze 19:14; 21:10,13

Eze 37:16-20; Mic 7:14

3:2,3; 18:1,7; Ex 6:16,20

Ex 25:16-22; 29:42,43; 30:6,36

Whom I.

16:5

blossom.

8; Isa 5:24; 11:1; 27:6; 35:1,2; Ho 14:5

I will.

10; Isa 13:11; Eze 16:41; 23:27

they murmur.

16:11

a rod a-piece, for each prince one. Heb. a rod for oneprince, a rod for one prince. See on ver.

18:2; Ex 38:21; Ac 7:44

the rod of Aaron.This fact was so unquestionably miraculous, that no doubt could remain on the minds of the people, or the envious chiefs, of the divine appointment of Aaron: and as there were buds, blossoms, and fruit on the rod at the same time, which was never the case with branches in the natural and ordinary course, this evidently proved the miracle, and took away all suspicion of the fraud which has been impiously suggested, that Moses had taken away Aaron's rod in the night time, and put a living branch of an almond tree in the room of it. A sceptre or staff of office resuming its vegetative life, was considered an absolute impossibility among the ancients; and as they were accustomed to swear by their sceptres, this circumstance was added to confirm the oath.

budded.

5; Ge 40:10; Ps 110:2; 132:17,18; So 2:3; Isa 4:2; Eze 17:24

Eze 19:12,14; Joh 15:1-6

Bring Aaron's.

Heb 9:4

for a token.

16:38,40; Ex 16:32; De 31:19-26

rebels. Heb. children of rebellion.

1Sa 2:12; 30:22; Ps 57:4; Isa 1:2; Ho 10:9; Eph 2:2,3; 5:6

and thou.

Behold.

26:11; Ps 90:7; Pr 19:3; Isa 57:16; Heb 12:5

we die.{Gawanoo,} "we expire:" it signifies not so much to die simply, as to feel an extreme difficulty in breathing, which producing suffocation, ends at last in death. See the folly and extravagance of this sinful people, in thus rebelling against the authority of those whom Jehovah had appointed to be their rulers.

Whosoever.

1:51-53; 18:4-7

any thing.

Ge 3:3; 1Sa 6:19-21; 2Sa 6:6-12; 1Ch 13:11-13; 15:13; Ps 130:3,4

Ac 5:5,11-14; Eph 2:13; Heb 10:19-22

consumed.

16:26; 32:13; De 2:16; Job 34:14,15; Ps 90:7; Isa 28:22

Numbers 20

1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies.

2 They murmur for want of water.

7 Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah.

14 Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him.

22 At mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies.

An. Ex. Is. 40. Then.This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare ch. 33:38, with ver. 28 of this chap. and De 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (ch. 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years.

De 1:22,23; 2:14

into.

13:21; 27:14; 33:36; De 32:51

Kadesh.This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See ch. 34:3, 4. Jos 15:1, 3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, ch. 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel.

16; Ps 29:8

Miriam.

12:1,10,15; 26:59; Ex 2:4,7; 15:20; Mic 6:4

no.

Ex 15:23,24; 17:1-4

gathered.

11:1-6; 16:3,19,42; 21:5; Ex 16:2,7,12; 1Co 10:10,11

God.

14:1,2; Ex 16:2,3; 17:2; Job 3:10,11

when.

11:1,33,34; 14:36,37; 16:31-35,49; La 4:9

why.

11:5; Ex 5:21; 17:3; Ps 106:21; Ac 7:35,39,40

that we.

16:13,14,41; Ex 14:11,12; 16:3

this evil.

16:14; De 8:15; Ne 9:21; Jer 2:2,6; Eze 20:36

no place of. i.e., "no place for sowing."

they fell.

14:5; 16:4,22,45; Ex 17:4; Jos 7:6; 1Ch 21:16; Ps 109:3,4

Mt 26:39

the glory.

12:5; 14:10; 16:19,42; Ex 16:10

the rod.

21:15,18; Ex 4:2,17; 7:20; 14:16; 17:5,9

speak.

Ge 18:14; Jos 6:5,20; Ps 33:9; Mt 21:21; Mr 11:22-24; Lu 11:13

Joh 4:10-14; 16:24; Ac 1:14; 2:1-4; Re 22:1,17

bring forth.

11; Ne 9:15; Ps 78:15,16; 105:41; 114:8; Isa 41:17,18; 43:20

Isa 48:21

17:10

De 9:24; Ps 106:32,33; Mt 5:22; Lu 9:54,55; Ac 23:3-5; Eph 4:26

Jas 3:2

we fetch.

11:22,23; Ge 40:8; 41:16; Da 2:28-30; Ac 3:12-16; 14:9-15

Ro 15:17-19; 1Co 3:7

smote.

8; Le 10:1; 1Sa 15:13,14,19,24; 1Ki 13:21-24; 1Ch 13:9,10

1Ch 15:2,13; Mt 28:20; Jas 1:20

the water.

Ex 17:6; De 8:15; Ho 13:5; 1Co 10:4

Because ye believed.

11:21,22; 2Ch 20:20; Isa 7:9; Mt 17:17,20; Lu 1:20,45; Ro 4:20

sanctify.

27:14; Le 10:3; De 1:37; 32:51; Isa 8:13; Eze 20:41; 36:23; 38:10

1Pe 3:15

ye shall.

24; 11:15; De 3:23-26; 32:49,50; 34:4; Jos 1:2; Joh 1:17

the water.

De 33:8; Ps 95:8; 106:32-48

Meribah. i.e., Strife.

Ex 17:7; De 32:51

Meribah-Kadesh. he was.

Isa 5:16; Eze 20:41; 36:23; 38:16

Moses.

Jud 11:16,17

thy brother.

Ge 32:3,4; De 2:4-25; 23:7; Ob 1:10-12; Mal 1:2

befallen us. Heb. found us.

Ex 18:8

our fathers.

Ge 46:6; Ac 7:15

dwelt.

Ge 15:13; Ex 12:40

vexed us.

11:5; 16:13; Ex 1:11-14,16,22; 5:14; De 26:6; Ac 7:19

we cried.

Ex 2:23,24; 3:7-9; 6:5; 14:10

sent an.

Ex 3:2-6; 14:19; 23:20; 33:2

21:1,22-24; De 2:1-4,27,29

De 2:6,28

Thou shalt.

18; Ge 27:41; 32:6; Jud 11:17,20; Ps 120:7; Eze 35:5-11

Am 1:11

And Edom.

Ob 1:10-15

refused.

De 2:27,29

wherefore.

De 2:4-8; 23:7; Jud 11:18,24

Kadesh.

1,14,16; 13:26; 33:36,37; Eze 47:19; 48:28

mount Hor.Mount Hor was situated in Arabia Petræa, on the confines of Edom. It is described by Burckhardt, as being situated on the western side of a valley called Wady Mousa; in which are found the ruins of the ancient Petra, and which is two long days' journey north-east of Accaba (on the northern point of the Elanitic gulf of the Red sea,) in the Djebel Shera, or mount Seir, and on the east side of the Araba, the valley which forms the continuation of that of the Jordan. On the summit of the mountain is the tomb of Haroun, or Aaron, which is held in great veneration by the Arabs; which agrees with the testimonies of Josephus, Eusebius, and Jerome, all persons well acquainted with these countries, who agree in proving that the sepulchre of Aaron, in mount Hor, was near Petra. When visited by Mr. Legh, it was attended by a crippled Arab hermit, about 80 years of age, who conducted them into a small white building, crowned by a cupola, that contains the tomb of Aaron. The monument is of stone, about three feet high; and round the chamber where it stood were suspended beads, etc., the votive offerings of the devotees.

21:4; 33:37,38; 34:7

gathered.

27:13; 31:2; Ge 15:15; 25:8,17; 35:29; 49:29,33; De 32:50; Jud 2:10

because ye.

word. Heb. mouth.

Ex 29:29,30; Isa 22:21,22; Heb 7:11,23,24

Moses.

26; 33:38-49; Ex 29:29,30

put them.

27:16-23; De 31:7,8; 34:9; 1Ch 22:11,12,17; 28:5-9; Ac 20:25-29

2Pe 1:15

died there.

33:38,39; De 10:6; 32:49,50; 34:5; Heb 7:24,25

Ge 1:10; De 34:8; 2Ch 35:24,25; Ac 8:2

Numbers 21

1 Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah.

4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents.

7 They repenting are healed by a brazen serpent.

10 Sundry journeys of the Israelites.

21 Sihon is overcome,

33 and Og.

Arad.

33:40; Jos 12:14; Jud 1:16

the way of the spies.Dr. Kennicott remarks, that the word {atharim,} rendered spies in our version, is in the Greek a proper name ([Atharein,] Atharim).

13:21,22; 14:45

then.

De 2:32; Jos 7:5; 11:19,20; Ps 44:3,4

vowed.

Ge 28:20; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 15:7,8; Ps 56:12,13; 116:18

Ps 132:2

I will.

Le 27:28,29; De 13:15; Jos 6:17,26; 1Co 16:22

hearkened.

Ps 10:17; 91:15; 102:17

and they utterly.{Wyyacharem,} rather with the LXX. [kai anethematisen,] "and they anathematised, or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua. (Jos 12:14.)

the name.

14:45; De 1:44; 1Sa 30:30{Hormah,} that is, utter destruction. {Chormah,} rather a devoting to destruction: so LXX. [Anathema,] and Tremellius, {devotio sive anathema.}

mount Hor.

20:22,23,27; 33:41

by the way.

14:25; De 1:40

compass.

20:18-21; De 2:5-8; Jud 11:18

the soul.

32:7,9; Ex 6:9; Ac 14:22; 1Th 3:3,4

discouraged. or, grieved. Heb. shortened.

Ex 6:9

spake.

11:1-6; 14:1-4; 16:13,14,41; 17:12; Ex 14:11; 15:24; 16:2,3,7,8

Ex 17:2,3; Ps 68:6; 78:19

and our soul.

11:6-9; Ex 16:15,31; Ps 78:24,25; Pr 27:7

Ge 3:14,15; De 8:15; Isa 14:29; 30:6; Jer 8:17; Am 9:3,4; 1Co 10:9

We have.

Ex 9:27,28; 1Sa 12:19; 15:24,30; Ps 78:34; Mt 27:4

pray.

Ex 8:8,28; 1Ki 13:6; Jer 37:3; Ac 8:24; Jas 5:16

And Moses.

11:2; 14:17-20; Ge 20:7; Ex 32:11,30; De 9:20,26-29

1Sa 12:20-23; Job 42:8,10; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1; Ro 10:1

Ps 106:43-45; 145:8

A serpent of.

2Ki 18:4; Joh 3:14,15; 12:32; Ro 8:3; 2Co 5:21

when he.

Isa 45:22; Zec 12:10; Joh 1:29; Heb 12:2; 1Jo 3:8

he lived.

Joh 6:40; Ro 1:17; 5:20,21

33:43-45

Oboth.Probably Oboda, a city of Arabia Petræa, mentioned by Ptolemy. Pliny assigns it to the Helmodians; but Stephanus to the Nabatheans.

Ije-abarim. or, heaps of Abarim.

the valley of Zared.

De 2:13,14

the brook Zered.

14; 22:36; De 2:24; Jud 11:18; Isa 16:2; Jer 48:20

in the book.

Jos 10:13; 2Sa 1:18

What he did. or, Vaheb in Suphah.The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well; (which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree, upon their borders;) and from the wilderness (or the well, as in LXX.) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of this, from ver. 14-20, is a fragment from "the book of the wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every difficulty.

Ar.

28; De 2:9,18,29; Isa 15:1

lieth. Heb. leaneth.

Beer.

Jud 9:21

Gather.

20:8; Ex 17:6; Isa 12:3; 41:17,18; 43:20; 49:10; Joh 4:10,14

Joh 7:37-39; Re 21:6; 22:1,17

sang.

Ex 15:1,2; Jud 5:1; Ps 105:2; 106:12; Isa 12:1,2,5; Jas 5:13

Spring up. Heb. ascend. sing ye. or answer.

princes.

2Ch 17:7-9; Ne 3:1,5; 1Ti 6:17,18

the lawgiver.

De 5:31; 33:4; Isa 33:22; Joh 1:17; Jas 4:12

And from.

33:45-47

country. Heb. field.

22:1; 26:63; 33:49,50; De 1:5

to the.

23:14; De 3:27; 4:49; 34:1

Pisgah. or the hill. Jeshimon. or, the wilderness.

23:28

20:14-19; De 2:26-28; Jud 11:19-21

20:17

Sihon would.

De 2:30-32; 29:7,8

Jahaz.

Jud 11:20; Isa 15:4; Jer 48:34

Israel.

32:1-4,33-42; De 2:31-37; 29:7; Jos 9:10; 12:1-3; 13:8-10; 24:8

Jud 11:21-23; 12:1,2; 21:8; Ne 9:22; Ps 135:10-12; 136:19; Am 2:9

Arnon.

13; Ge 32:22; De 3:16

dwelt.

31; 32:33-42; De 2:12

in Heshbon.Heshbon was situated, according to Eusebius, twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome, who places it at the same distance, says it was, in his time, a very considerable city. It still subsists, in ruins, under the name of Heshban.

So 7:4; Isa 15:4; 16:8,9; Jer 48:2,34,45

villages. Heb. daughters.

Eze 16:46,49,53

Arnon.Arnon is a stream which takes its rise in the mountains of Moab, and, by a north-west course, during which it receives the waters of several streams, runs into the Dead sea. It is now called Wady Modjeb, and divides the province of Pelka from that of Kerek, as it formerly divided the kingdoms of the Moabites and Amorites. Its principal source is at a short distance to the north-east of Katrane, a station of the Syrian Hadj, where it is called Seyl Sayde; and lower down it receives the name of Esseim el Kereim, or Szefye.

14; Isa 14:4; Hab 2:6

a fire.

Jud 9:20; Isa 10:16; Jer 48:45,46; Am 1:4,7,10,12,14; 2:2,5

Ar of Moab.

15; De 2:9,18; Isa 15:1,2

Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7,33; 2Ki 23:13; Jer 48:7,13,46; 1Co 8:4,5

have shot.

Ge 49:23; 2Sa 11:24; Ps 18:14

Dibon.

32:34; Jos 13:17; Isa 15:2,9; Jer 48:18,22

32:33-42; De 3:16,17; Jos 12:1-6; 13:8-12

Jaazer.

32:1,35; Isa 16:8,9; Jer 48:32

Jazer.

they turned.

De 3:1-6; 29:7; Jos 13:12

Bashan.

De 32:14; Ps 22:12; 68:15; Isa 33:9; Eze 27:6; 39:18; Am 4:1

Og.

32:33; De 1:4; 3:1; 4:47; 29:7; Jos 9:10; 12:4; 13:30

Fear him.

14:9; De 3:2,11; 20:3; 31:6; Jos 10:8,25; Isa 41:13

for I have.

De 3:3; 7:24; Jos 8:7; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 23:4; 2Sa 5:19; 1Ki 20:13,28

2Ki 3:18

thou shalt.

24; Ps 135:10,11

as thou.

24,25

De 3:3-17; 29:7,8; Jos 12:4-6; 13:12; Ps 135:10-12; 136:17-21

Ro 8:37

Deuteronomy 2:25-37

11:25; 28:10; Ex 15:14-16; 23:27; Jos 2:9-12; 9:24; 2Ki 7:6,7

Ps 105:38; Jer 33:9; Re 3:9

Kedemoth.

Jos 13:18; 21:37

with words.

20:10,11; Es 9:30; Mt 10:12-15; Lu 10:5,6,10-12

6; Nu 21:21-23; Jud 11:19

only I will pass.

Nu 20:19

As the children.It appears to have been only the Edomites of Kadesh-barnea, south of Canaan, who denied the Israelites a passage; for those of mount Seir, now called Shera, are here expressly said to have granted it them: and this, in fact, was the very road by which they arrived at Canaan.

23:3,4; Nu 20:18; Jud 11:17,18

into the land.

4:1,21,40; 5:16; 9:6; 25:15; Ex 20:12; Jos 1:11-15

for the Lord.

Ex 4:21; 11:10; Nu 21:23; Jos 11:19,20; Jud 11:20; Ro 9:17-23

obstinate.

Isa 48:4

give Sihon.

24; 1:8

Nu 21:23-30; Jud 11:20-23; Ne 9:22; Ps 120:7; 135:11; 136:19

the Lord.

3:2,3; 7:2; 20:16; Ge 14:20; Jos 21:44; Jud 1:4; 7:2

we smote.

29:7,8; Nu 21:24; Jos 10:30-42

utterly destroyed.

7:2,26; 20:16-18; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2,3; Jos 7:11; 8:25,26; 9:24

Jos 11:14; 1Sa 15:3,8,9

the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city.Heb. every city of men, and women, and little ones.

20:14; Nu 31:9-11; Jos 8:27

Aroer.

3:12; 4:48; Jos 13:9; Isa 17:2; Jer 48:19

not.

Jos 1:5; Ps 44:3; Isa 41:15,16; Ro 8:31

unto the land.

5,9,19; 3:16; Jud 11:15

Jabbok.

Ge 32:22; Nu 21:24; Jos 12:2

Deuteronomy 8:4

Many have attempted to give the following meaning to this text:--"God so amply provided for them all the necessaries of life, that they never were obliged to wear tattered garments, nor were their feet injured for lack of shoes or sandals." Now, though the Israelites doubtless brought out of Egypt more raiment than what they had upon them; and they might manufacture the fleeces of their flocks in the wilderness; and also might be favoured by Providence with other supplies from the neighbouring nations or travelling hordes of Arabs; yet, when we consider their immense numbers, their situation and long continuance in the wilderness, and the very strong expressions made use of in the text, why should we question the extraordinary and miraculous interposition of God in this respect, as well as in others, not less stupendous in their nature, or constant in their supply?

29:5; Ne 9:21; Mt 26:25-30