Num 17:8, Isa 5:24, 11:1, 27:6, 35:1-2, Hos 14:5 | TSK | STEP | 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.

Numbers 17:8

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

Isaiah 5:24

fire. Heb. tongue of fire. devoureth.

47:14; Ex 15:7; Joe 2:5; Na 1:10; Mal 4:1; 1Co 3:12,13

the flame.

Mt 3:12; Lu 3:17

their root.

9:14-17; Job 18:16; Ho 9:16; Am 2:9

cast away.

1Sa 15:23,26; 2Ki 17:14,15; Ne 9:26; Ps 50:17; Jer 6:19; 8:9

Lu 7:30; Joh 12:48; Heb 10:28,29

despised.

30:12; 2Sa 12:9,10; Lu 10:16; Ac 13:41; 1Th 4:8

Isaiah 11:1

1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of the root of Jesse.

10 The victorious restoration of Israel, and vocation of the Gentiles.

And there shall.The prophet having described the destruction of the Assyrian army under that of a mighty forest, here takes occasion to represent the Great Person, who makes the subject of this chapter, as a slender twig, shooting out of the trunk of an old tree; which tender twig, though weak in appearance, should become fruitful and prosper.

53:2; Zec 6:12; Re 5:5; 22:16

of Jesse.

10; Ru 4:17; 1Sa 17:58; Mt 1:6-16; Lu 2:23-32; Ac 13:22,23

Ro 15:12

a Branch.

4:2; Jer 23:5; 33:15; Zec 3:8; 6:12