Num 15:30-31, Jos 5:2-12 | TSK | STEP | doeth ought. presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off. reproacheth.

Numbers 15:30-31

doeth ought.

9:13; 14:44; Ge 17:14; Ex 21:14; Le 20:3,6,10; De 1:43; 17:12

De 29:19,20; Ps 19:13; Mt 12:32; Heb 10:26,29; 2Pe 2:10

presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off.

reproacheth.

Ps 69:9; 74:18,22; 79:12; 89:51; Pr 14:31; Isa 37:23,24

despised.

Le 26:15,43; 2Sa 12:9; Ps 119:126; Pr 13:13; Isa 30:12; 1Th 4:8

Heb 10:28,29

his iniquity.

Le 5:1; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:6; Eze 18:20; 1Pe 2:24; 2Pe 2:21

Joshua 5:2-12

sharp knives. or, knives of flints.Before the use of iron was common, all the nations of the earth had their edge tools made of stones, flints, etc. Our ancestors had their arrows and spearheads made of flint; which are frequently turned up by the plough. And even when iron became more common, stone knives seem to have been preferred for making incisions in the human body. The Egyptians used such to open the bodies for embalming; and the tribe of Alnajab in Ethiopia, who follow the Mosaic institution, perform the rite of circumcision, according to Ludolf, {cultris lapidibus,} with knives made of stone.

circumcise.

Ge 17:10-14; De 10:16; 30:6; Ro 2:29; 4:11; Col 2:11

Joshua.

Ge 17:23-27; Mt 16:24

the hill of the foreskins. or, Gibeah haaraloth.

All the.

Nu 14:22; 26:64,65; De 2:16; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17-19

they had not.

De 12:8,9; Ho 6:6,7; Mt 12:7; Ro 2:26; 1Co 7:19; Ga 5:6; 6:15

walked.

Nu 14:32-34; De 1:3; 2:7,14; 8:4; Ps 95:10,11; Jer 2:2

sware that.

Nu 14:23; Heb 3:11

a land.

Ex 3:8,17; Eze 20:6,15; Joe 3:18

their children.

Nu 14:31; De 1:39

when they, etc. Heb. when the people had made an end to becircumcised. till they were whole.

Ge 34:25

I rolled away.

24:14; Ge 34:14; Le 24:14; 1Sa 14:6; 17:26,36; Ps 119:39; Jer 9:25

Eze 20:7,8; 23:3,8; Eph 2:11,12

Gilgal.That is, rolling.

4:19

kept the passover.

Eze 12:3,6,7-16; Nu 9:1-5

old corn.The people would find abundance of old corn in the deserted granaries of the affrighted inhabitants: and the barley harvest being ripe, after offering the sheaf of first-fruits, they ate also new parched corn; and thus the manna being no longer necessary, ceased, after having been sent them regularly for almost forty years. To Christians the manna for their souls shall never fail, till they arrive at the Canaan above, to feast on its rich and inexhaustible provisions.

unleavened cakes.

Ex 12:18-20; 13:6,7; Le 23:6,14

the manna.

Ex 16:35; Ne 9:20,21; Re 7:16,17

but they did eat.

De 6:10,11; Pr 13:22; Isa 65:13,14; Joh 4:38