Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Numbers 20:26
His garments — His priestly garments, in token of his resignation of his office. Put them on Eleazar — By way of admission and inauguration to his office.
His garments — His priestly garments, in token of his resignation of his office. Put them on Eleazar — By way of admission and inauguration to his office.
Verse Numbers 20:26. _STRIP AARON OF HIS GARMENTS_] This was, in effect, depriving him of his office; and putting the clothes on his son Eleazar implied a transfer of that office to him. A transfer o...
The priestly garments, wherewith Moses had invested Aaron Leviticus 8:7, were put upon Eleazar by way of solemn transference of Aaron’s office to him; compare 1 Kings 19:19....
10. AT KADESH IN THE FORTIETH YEAR: MURMURING AND CONQUEST CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The death of Miriam (Numbers 20:1)_ 2. The murmuring of the people (Numbers 20:2) 3. The divine instruction (Numbers 20:6...
THE DEATH OF AARON (P).- Mt. Hor, the scene of Aaron's death, has been identified by some with Jebel Maduran, an isolated hill not far from the S. end of the Dead Sea, which must have been near to the...
UNTO HIS PEOPLE. Figure of speech _Ellipsis,_ supplied from Numbers 20:24....
_The death of Aaron_....
_his garments_ the official high-priest's vestments, with which Eleazar was robed, in token of his succession to the office; cf. Deuteronomy 10:6....
STRIP AARON, &C.— This implied a solemn divesting Aaron of his office, and appointing Eleazar his successor in dignity and employment. The garments here mentioned were the robes of the high priest's o...
D. DEATH OF AARON vv. 22-29 TEXT Numbers 20:22. And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. 23. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in...
_AARON SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO HIS PEOPLE: FOR HE SHALL NOT ENTER INTO THE LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE YE REBELLED AGAINST MY WORD AT THE WATER OF MERIBAH._ Aaron shal...
DEATH OF MIRIAM. MURMURING AT MERIBAH. DEATH OF AARON 1. Miriam dies while the people are at Kadesh (see on Numbers 13:21; Numbers 13:26). The first month is the first month of the fortieth year. As t...
This signifies the succession of Eleazar to the priesthood. The ceremony of putting on the sacred robes was an important part of the consecration of the high priest. See Leviticus 8:7; Exodus 29:29, a...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 WATER COMES OUT OF A ROCK – NUMBERS 20:1-13 V1 The *Israelites arrived at the Zin *desert during the fir
AND STRIP AARON OF HIS GARMENTS. — Thus the same hands which had invested Aaron with the sacred garments were employed in divesting him of them, and, in both cases, in obedience to the express command...
וְ הַפְשֵׁ֤ט אֶֽת ־אַהֲרֹן֙ אֶת ־בְּגָדָ֔יו ו
SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH Numbers 20:1 THERE is a mustering at Kadesh of the scattered tribes, for now the end of the period of wandering approaches, and the generation that has been disciplined i...
EDOM REFUSES PASSAGE; AARON DIES Numbers 20:14 It was an ungracious act on the part of the Edomites-descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother-to forbid the passage of the chosen people through their terri...
We now reach the record of events at the close of the forty years. The people were again at Kadesh. Here Miriam died and was buried. A study of the district will show that perhaps the severest part of...
Vesture, or pontifical attire. Eleazar had been anointed already, so that perhaps he stood in need of no other ceremony to be acknowledged high priest. He was dispensed with on this occasion to attend...
There is somewhat very interesting in this account, short as it is, of the close of Aaron's ministry. He ascends the mount it should seem with much cheerfulness and holy resignation, though he knew th...
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...
Miriam the prophetess dies; this character of testimony is closed. Israel grows old, so to speak, in the wilderness; and the voice which sang songs of triumph in coming up from the depths of the Red S...
AND STRIP AARON OF HIS GARMENTS,.... His priestly garments, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi: AND PUT THEM UPON ELEAZAR HIS SON; thereby declaring him to be high priest in his father's stead:...
_His garments_ His priestly garments, in token of his resignation of his office. _Put them upon Eleazar_ By way of admission and inauguration to his office. _In the sight of all the congregation_ That...
1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dieth. 2 They murmure for want of water. 7 Moses smiting the rocke bringeth forth water at Meribah. 14 Moses at Kadesh desireth passage thorow Edo...
and strip Aaron of his garments, the special garments distinctive of the high priest's office, AND PUT THEM UPON ELEAZAR, HIS SON; AND AARON SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO HIS PEOPLE AND SHALL DIE THERE....
THE DEATH OF AARON...
MOSES DISOBEDIENT BECAUSE PROVOKED (vs.1-13) Journeying again, the congregation came to the wilderness of ZIN and stopped at Kadesh, where Miriam died and was buried. The forty years of wandering ha...
22-29 God bids Aaron prepare to die. There is something of displeasure in these orders. Aaron must not enter Canaan, because he had failed in his duty at the waters of strife. There is much of mercy...
OF HIS GARMENTS, to wit, of his priestly garments, EXODUS 28:2 LEVITICUS 8:7, in token of his resignation of his office. See the like Isaiah 22:15,
"Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin, in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." Verse 1. The c...
Numbers 20:26 strip H6584 (H8685) Aaron H175 garments H899 put H3847 (H8689) Eleazar H499 son H1121 Aaron...
3). THE DEATH OF AARON (NUMBERS 20:22). This advance forward was evidence of a new beginning. This was confirmed by the fact that as a result of his sins over the Cushite wife of Moses (Numbers 12:11)...
Numbers 20:23 I. We may learn a salutary lesson from the death of Aaron in its merely literal bearing. Aaron, the high-priest, had to ascend Mount Hor clad in his priestly robes of office; but he must...
CONTENTS: Water from the rock and Moses' sin. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Eleazar, King of Edom. CONCLUSION: God is able to supply His people with necessaries even in their greatest strai...
Numbers 20:1. _The desert of Zin._ Critics are not agreed whether this was the same wilderness, and the same Kadesh to which the people arrived on the eighth journey after leaving Egypt. The arguments...
_Aaron died there in the top of the mount._ THE DEATH OF AARON The first and most superficial aspect of death is that it is the close of an earthly career. What kind of career was it that was brought...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:1 Marching from Kadesh to the Plains of Moab. After nearly 40 years of aimless wandering in the wilderness, Israel is ready to enter the Land of Promise. Most of the older g...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:22__ Aaron’s death fulfills the judgment pronounced on him in v. Numbers 20:12....
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:26 GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE. After death, one is reunited with one’s deceased relatives, according to OT belief (see note on 2 Sam. 12:23; see also...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES We now enter upon the narrative of the third and last stage of the journey of Israel from Sinai to the Promised Land: this narrative is given in this and the following c...
EXPOSITION THE LAST MARCH: FROM KADESH TO HOR (Numbers 20:1). NUMBERS 20:1 THEN CAME THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, EVEN THE WHOLE CONGREGATION. T
Chapter twenty records the verse, the death of Miriam, the sister of Moses. And she died there in Kadesh the desert of sin and was buried. And there was no water for the congregation: and they gather...
Exodus 29:29; Exodus 29:30; Hebrews 7:11; Hebrews 7:23; Hebrews 7:24;...