Numbers 17:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND TAKE OF EVERY ONE OF THEM A ROD ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, OF ALL THEIR PRINCES ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS TWELVE RODS: WRITE THOU EVERY MAN'S NAME_ _ UPON HIS ROD._ Speak unto the children of Israel. The controversy with Moses and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT WRITE AARON'S NAME UPON THE ROD OF LEVI: FOR ONE ROD SHALL BE FOR THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND EVERY ONE OF THEIR PRINCES GAVE HIM A ROD APIECE, FOR EACH PRINCE ONE, ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHERS' HOUSES, EVEN TWELVE RODS: AND THE ROD OF AARON WAS AMONG THEIR RODS._ THE ROD OF AARON WAS AMONG THEIR RODS - either one of the twelve, or, as many sup... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES LAID UP THE RODS BEFORE THE LORD IN THE TABERNACLE OF WITNESS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT ON THE MORROW MOSES WENT INTO THE TABERNACLE OF WITNESS; AND, BEHOLD, THE ROD OF AARON FOR THE HOUSE OF LEVI WAS BUDDED, AND BROUGHT FORTH BUDS, AND BLOOMED BLOSSOMS, AND YIELDED ALMONDS._ Moses went into the tabernacle - being privileged to do so on this occasion by the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES BROUGHT OUT ALL THE RODS FROM BEFORE THE LORD UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THEY LOOKED, AND TOOK EVERY MAN HIS ROD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, BRING AARON'S ROD AGAIN BEFORE THE TESTIMONY, TO BE KEPT FOR A TOKEN AGAINST THE REBELS; AND THOU SHALT QUITE TAKE AWAY THEIR MURMURINGS FROM ME, THAT THEY DIE NOT._ Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony - i:e., either in the ark before the tables of stone (Ebr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES DID SO: AS THE LORD COMMANDED HIM, SO DID HE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING, BEHOLD, WE DIE, WE PERISH, WE ALL PERISH._ Behold, we die, we perish - an exclamation of fear, both from the remembrance of former judgments and the apprehension of future relapses into murmuring.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHOSOEVER COMETH ANY THING NEAR UNTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE LORD SHALL DIE: SHALL WE BE CONSUMED WITH DYING?_ Cometh any thing near - i:e., nearer than he ought to do; an error into which many may fall. Will the stern justice of God overtake every slight offence? We shall all be destroyed. Some, ho... [ Continue Reading ]