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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Numbers 9

Numbers 9:1

NUMBERS CHAPTER 9 The passover kept in the wilderness on the fourteenth day of the first month, NUMBERS 9:1. By those who were then unclean or journeying, the fourteenth day of the second month, NUMBERS 9:6. They who otherwise neglect it to be put to death, NUMBERS 9:13. Proselytes are to observe th... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:3

So far as concerned the lamb and the unleavened bread, &c., for there were some things peculiar to the first passover in Egypt, as that they were to eat it _in haste, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand_, which were not properly rites or ceremonies of th... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:6

BY THE DEAD BODY OF A MAN; by the touch of a dead body, or something belonging to it; _\see NUMBERS 19:11\_ because unclean persons were prohibited to eat of holy things. See LEVITICUS 8:20, LEVITICUS 22:3. THEY CAME BEFORE MOSES, for resolution of their difficulty.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:7

Which if we neglect, we must be cut off; and if we keep it in these circumstances, we must also be cut off. What shall we do? The passover is called AN OFFERING OF THE LORD, because it was both killed and eaten in obedience to God's command, and to God's honour, and as a thank-offering to God for hi... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:10

Under these two instances the Hebrews think that other hinderances of like nature are comprehended; as if one be hindered by a disease, or by any other such kind of uncleanness; which may seem probable both from the nature of the thing, and the reason of the law, which is the same in other cases, an... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:13

THE MAN THAT FORBEARETH TO KEEP THE PASSOVER, through contempt or neglect, without these or any other just impediments, as before.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:15

_ 1490_ Of _the cloud_, see EXODUS 13:21. _The tabernacle, namely, _ THE TENT OF THE TESTIMONY, or, _the tabernacle towards_ or _above the tent of the testimony_, i.e. that part of the tabernacle in which was the testimony, or the ark of the testimony; for there the cloudy pillar stood, LEVITICUS 16... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:18

The motion or stay of the cloud is fitly called the command of God, because it was a signification of God's will and their duty, which a command properly is.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 9:19

THE CHARGE OF THE LORD, i.e. the command of God mentioned before, that they should stay as long as the cloud staid, as the same phrase is manifestly taken below, NUMBERS 9:23. And this, saith he, they did, though it were long in one place, which was tedious to them, who desired to change places, and... [ Continue Reading ]

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