And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? "Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them! As a true servant of God, who was not jealous for his own honor, but desired only the extension of God's influence and power, Moses wished only for a further extension of the Lord's gift of grace. A little more of this same Spirit in our days would help to solve many of the problems of the Church.
Verse Numbers 11:29. _ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?_] Moses, the minister of God, Rebukes our partial love, Who envy at the gifts bestow'd On those _we_ disapprove. We do not our own
Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah. Numbers 11:4 THE MIXT MULTITUDE - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of...
II. THE JOURNEY STARTED: ISRAEL'S UNBELIEF, FAILURE AND PUNISHMENT 1. The Departure and the First Failure CHAPTER 10:11-36 _ 1. The cloud moves (Numbers 10:11)_ 2. The standard of the camp of Juda...
NUMBERS 11:4 (JE). THE PEOPLE'S LUST FOR FLESH AND MOSES-' COMPLAINT OF HIS EXCESSIVE BURDEN. This section is a combination of two narratives (from J and E), relating (1) a demand of the people for fl...
ENVIEST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Art thou jealous for me? WOULD GOD. "God" should be in italics. Figure of speech _Eonismos._ App-6. PUT HIS SPIRIT. This is the definition of. t...
DISCOURSE: 152 JOSHUA’S ENVY REPROVED Numbers 11:27. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one...
JOSHUA—THE SERVANT OF MOSES, &C.— See Exodus 33:11. Joshua, it should seem, thought that these men's prophesying, or teaching in the camp, tended to make those gifts common, and to disparage Moses in...
E. BITTER EXPERIENCE AT THE GRAVES OF LUST (KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH), vv. 4-35 TEXT Numbers 11:4. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and...
_BUT THERE REMAINED TWO OF THE MEN IN THE CAMP, THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS ELDAD, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER MEDAD: AND THE SPIRIT RESTED UPON THEM; AND THEY WERE OF THEM THAT WERE WRITTEN, BUT WENT NOT O...
JOURNEYINGS FROM SINAI TO MOAB (NUMBERS 10:11 TO NUMBERS 22:1) After a stay at Sinai of nearly a year (cp. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1) the s
A good example of the magnanimity and unselfishness of Moses: see on Numbers 27:15....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD SENDS FIRE – NUMBERS 11:1-3 V1 The people started to complain about their problems. The *LORD heard the
ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?-Better, _Art thou zealous for me?_ or, _Art thou displeased on my account?_ (Comp. Numbers 25:13; 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14.)...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר לֹו֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה הַֽ מְקַנֵּ֥א אַתָּ֖
THE STRAIN OF THE DESERT JOURNEY Numbers 11:1 THE narrative has accompanied the march of Israel but a short way from the mount of God to some spot marked for an encampment by the ark of the covenant,...
“THE GRAVES OF LUST” Numbers 11:26 It is delightful to note the proof of the nobility of Moses' nature in the answer he gave to the tidings concerning Eldad and Medad. They might not be of the design...
Here we enter upon the second section in the Book of Numbers, in which is revealed the failure of man. The first evidence was discontent, resulting unquestionably from the hardship of life. This was...
Oh! what a lovely feature of character doth Moses manifest in this instance! And is it not the wish and prayer of every true follower of the LORD? Romans 10:1. Is not the Reader reminded of an interes...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
_THE MAGNANIMOUS LEADER_ ‘And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets!’ Numbers 11:29 Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preachin...
29._And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? _This may be understood in two different ways. Some take it, as if Moses had said, It is no business of yours, if I have suffered any loss: and i...
We are now brought to turn our thoughts in another direction-to see the conduct of the people in the wilderness, and alas! what is it except a history of unfaithfulness and rebellion? Let us add, howe...
MOSES SAID UNTO HIM, ENVIEST THOU FOR MY SAKE?.... Lest his authority should be weakened, and his honour lessened, because they began not to prophesy in his presence, and at the tabernacle, and among...
And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! Ver. 29. That all the Lord's people.] This i...
Num. 11:29. This wish of Moses was fulfilled in the Christian Church, after Christ's ascension; according to the prophecy of Joel; (chap. Joel 2:28, etc.), God put His spirit in His extraordinary gift...
_Enviest thou for my sake?_ Art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God's Spirit are imparted to others besides me? Or rather, _Art thou jealous for my sake?_ Art thou afraid that their exerc...
1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses prayer. 4 The people lust for flesh, and loth Manna. 10 Moses complayneth of his charge. 16 God diuideth his burden vnto seuentie Elders. 31 Quailes are...
COMPLAINT ANSWERED BY FIRE (vs.1-3) Israel had reason for profound thanksgiving to the Lord, as believers certainly have today. Yet now they complained (v.1) without any reason for it. It is sad when...
24-30 We have here the fulfilment of God's word to Moses, that he should have help in the government of Israel. He gave of his Spirit to the seventy elders. They discoursed to the people of the thing...
ENVIEST THOU; art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God are imparted to others besides me? Compare 1 THESSALONIANS 3:26. He saith PROPHETS, not _rulers_, for that he knew was absurd and imp...
Hitherto we have been occupied, in our study of this book, with God's mode of ordering and providing for His people in the wilderness. We have travelled over the first ten Chapter s and seen in them t...
Numbers 11:29 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) zealous H7065 (H8764) the H5414 (H8799) LORDS H3068 people...
THE ENDUING OF THE SEVENTY ELDERS (NUMBERS 11:24). The purpose of God in providing the seventy elders would seem to be in order to act as an advisory and supporting council to Moses, and to supervise...
Numbers 11:29 Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preaching and prophesying; and this, at a time of scanty knowledge and rare spiritual illumination, was not without its dangers. So thought J...
CONTENTS: Complaints about the manna and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eldad, Medad, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Though God graciously gives us leave to complain to Him when there is cause, yet...
Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....
_Eldad and Medad do prophesy._ ELDAD AND MEDAD Eldad and Medad seem instances of unlicensed preaching and prophesying; and this, at a time of scanty knowledge and rare spiritual illumination, was not...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:4 The people complain about the monotony of their diet of manna. What they really want, however, are the pleasures of EGYPT (vv. Numbers 11:4
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:24 These SEVENTY ELDERS prophesied for only a short time (THEY DID NOT CONTINUE DOING IT), but this was enough to give them credibility as Moses’ assistants. Their prophesyi...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 11:1. “_And when the people complained,”_ etc. Margin: “the people were, as it were, complainers.” _Speaker’s Comm_.: “And the people were as those that complai...
EXPOSITION KIBROTH HATTAAVAH (Numbers 11:4). NUMBERS 11:4 THE MIXED MULTITUDE. Hebrew, _ha_-_saphsuph, _the gathered; the rift-raft, or rabble, which had followed the fortunes of Israel out of Egypt...
This time let's turn to Numbers chapter eleven. In reading Numbers eleven through twenty, I see a pattern emerging, a pattern of chronic complaining, as the people are now complaining against the Lord...
1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 14:5; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 3:3;...
Enviest thou for my sake — Art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God are imparted to others besides me? Prophets — He saith prophets, not rulers, for that he knew was absurd and impossible....