Gen 18:25, Exo 20:5, Num 16:27-31, Jos 6:18, 21, Job 20:23-28 | TSK | STEP

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

Joshua 6:18

in any wise.

Ro 12:9; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:11; Jas 1:27; 1Jo 5:21

lest ye make.

7:1,11,12,15; De 7:26; 13:17

make the camp.

7:11,12; 22:18-20; 1Sa 14:28-42; Ec 9:18; Jon 1:12

and trouble it.

7:25; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:17,18

Joshua 6:21

And they.The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased, instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of his vengeance. Had an angel been commissioned to slay them, who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty? In all public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands of infants die in great agony every year. Now, either God is not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect justice and goodness.

utterly.

9:24,25; 10:28,39; 11:14; De 2:34; 7:2,3,16; 20:16,17

1Sa 15:3,8,18,19; 1Ki 20:42; Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:18; Re 18:21