Num 10:8-9, 31:6, Judg 20:27-28, 1Sa 14:18, 30:7-8, 2Ch 13:12 | TSK

Numbers 10:8-9

31:6; Jos 6:4-16; 1Ch 15:24; 16:6; 2Ch 13:12-15

if ye go.

31:6; Jos 6:5; 2Ch 13:14

oppresseth.

Jud 2:18; 3:27; 4:2,3; 6:9,34; 7:16-21; 10:8,12; 1Sa 10:18

Ps 106:42

then ye shall.

Isa 18:3; 58:1; Jer 4:5,19,21; 6:1,17; Eze 7:14; 33:3-6; Ho 5:8

Am 3:6; Zep 1:16; 1Co 14:8

remembered.

Ge 8:1; Ps 106:4; 136:23; Lu 1:70-74

Numbers 31:6

a thousand.Twelve thousand in all--a small number in proportion to all Israel, or to the forces which they had to encounter. As they were under the conduct of captains of thousands and hundreds, they probably had no general; for Phinehas seems to have accompanied them simply to take charge of "the holy instruments;" probably the ark and silver trumpets.

Phinehas.

25:7-13

the holy instruments.

14:44; 33:20-22; Ex 25:9; Jos 6:4-6,13-15; 1Sa 4:4,5,17; 14:18

1Sa 23:9; 2Sa 11:11

to blow.

10:8,9; 2Ch 13:12-15

Judges 20:27-28

enquired.

18,23; Nu 27:21

the ark.

Jos 18:1; 1Sa 4:3,4; Ps 78:60,61; Jer 7:12The loss of two battles at length brought this stiff-necked people to enquire of the Lord; for all the company at this time met at Shiloh, and kept a day of fasting and prayer with great earnestness and solemnity. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear."

Isa 59:1

Phinehas.It is evident, from this mention of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, that these transactions must have taken place not long after the death of Joshua.

Nu 25:7-13; Jos 22:13,30-32; 24:33

stood.

De 10:8; 18:5

Shall I yet.

Jos 7:7; 1Sa 14:37; 23:4-12; 30:8; 2Sa 5:19-24; 6:3,7-12; Pr 3:5,6

Jer 10:23

Go up.

1:2; 7:9; 2Ch 20:17

1 Samuel 14:18

Bring hither.The Septuagint reads [Prosagage to ephoud, hoti autos ere to ephoud en te hemera ekeine enopiou Israel.] "Bring hither the ephod; for he bore the ephod on that day before Israel:" which Houbigant and others think is the true reading. Finding that his son Jonathan and his armour-bearer were absent, Saul wished to consult the high-priest; but the tumult increasing, he says to him, "Withdraw thine hand:" i.e., desist form consulting the ephod on the present occasion, and immediately hastened to make the best use he could of this astonishing victory.

4:3-5; 30:8; Nu 27:21; Jud 20:18,23,27,28; 2Sa 11:11; 15:24-26

For the ark.

5:2; 7:1