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Numbers 20:12
Had Moses and Aaron shewn a true faith they would have been the means of exhibiting God's holiness before the eyes of the people. By their unbelief they detracted from it.
Had Moses and Aaron shewn a true faith they would have been the means of exhibiting God's holiness before the eyes of the people. By their unbelief they detracted from it.
Verse Numbers 20:12. _BECAUSE YE BELIEVED ME NOT_] What was the offence for which Moses was excluded from the promised land? It appears to have consisted in some or all of the following particulars:...
The command Numbers 20:8 was “Speak ye unto the rock.” The act of smiting, and especially with two strokes, indicates violent irritation on the part of Moses; as does also his unseemly mode of address...
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...
NUMBERS 20:2 (mainly JE). THE LACK OF WATER SUPPLIED BY A MIRACLE. The account of the people's demand for water, and of the means by which it was supplied, seems to be a duplicate of the narrative in...
BELIEVED ME NOT. So Moses entered not in, because of unbelief. ME. Hence called "rebellion" in Numbers 20:24 with Numbers 27:14. Compare Deuteronomy 32:51. Compare "we" in...
DISCOURSE: 166 MOSES AND AARON SENTENCED TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS Numbers 20:12. _And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Is...
BECAUSE YE BELIEVED ME NOT— Various have been the inquiries as to what the fault of Moses and Aaron was for which they were excluded the promised land. Some imagine that their manner of speaking to th...
B. SIN OF MOSES AT MERIBAH vv. 2-13 TEXT Numbers 20:2. And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3. And the people chode with...
_AND THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE CONGREGATION: AND THEY GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST AARON._ There was no water for the congregation. There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-mishp...
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...
YE BELIEVED ME NOT] The root of Moses' sin was unbelief. He doubted the power of God, or His willingness to bear longer with these REBELS (Numbers 20:10), and instead of speaking to the rock, as he wa...
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 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND AARON. — We read in Psalms 106:33 that the Israelites “provoked (literally, _made to rebel_) his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.” Whatever was the...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְ אֶֽל
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...
THE SIN OF MOSES AND AARON Numbers 20:1 Again the people, as the long years of their Wilderness life drew to an end, gathered around the Tabernacle at Kadesh. Again the murmuring spirit broke out, a...
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...
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to (f) sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have...
You have not believed, &c. The fault of Moses and Aaron, on this occasion, was a certain diffidence and weakness of faith: not doubting of God's power or veracity; but apprehending the unworthiness of...
Reader! do not fail to remark how the LORD deals in faithfulness. GOD will not allow iniquity in his people to go unrebuked. The tenor of the covenant indeed is, if the children (of the Redeemer) fors...
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 SIN OF MOSES_ ‘And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the...
12._And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron. _God here both sets forth their crime, and pronounces its punishment. Now, whilst unbelief is in itself a gross and detestable evil, God aggravates its gui...
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 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND AARON,.... Out of the cloud, where his glory appeared, and still continued: BECAUSE YE BELIEVED ME NOT, TO SANCTIFY ME IN THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; that Mo...
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have giv...
_Ye believed me not_ But showed your infidelity; which they did, either by smiting the rock, and that twice, which is emphatically noted, as if they doubted whether once smiting would have done it; wh...
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...
Water Out of the Rock....
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed Me not, because they had not firmly, unconditionally, and confidently placed their humble trust in His word, TO SANCTIFY ME IN THE EYES OF...
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...
1-13 After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever w...
YE BELIEVED ME NOT, but showed your infidelity; which they did either by their looks and gestures, or rather by the matter and manner of their expressions and actions; either, 1. By smiting the rock,...
"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 20:12 LORD H3068 spoke H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 Aaron H175 believe H539 (H8689) hallow H6942 ...
YAHWEH COMPLAINS AT MOSES AND AARON BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT SANCTIFIED HIM IN THE EYES OF ISRAEL AND PUNISHES THEM BY EXCLUSION FROM THE LAND (NUMBERS 20:12). Numbers 20:12 ‘And Yahweh said to Moses an...
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...
_Neither is there any water to drink._ THE PRIVATIONS OF MAN AND THE RESOURCES OF GOD I. There are privations in the pilgrimage of human life. One man thinks that without health his life would be wor...
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 20:2__ Even though Moses’ error seems minor, v. Numbers 20:12 indicates that carelessness in responding to God’s command was the real issue: Bec
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...
1 Peter 3:15; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:23;...
Ye believed me not — But shewed your infidelity: which they did, either by smiting the rock, and that twice, which is emphatically noted, as if he doubted whether once smiting would have done it, wher...