Numbers 17 - Introduction
_A.M. 2533. B.C. 1471._ The blossoming of Aaron's rod, Numbers 17:1. It is laid up for a memorial, Numbers 17:10; Numbers 17:11. The people are terrified, Numbers 17:12; Numbers 17:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2533. B.C. 1471._ The blossoming of Aaron's rod, Numbers 17:1. It is laid up for a memorial, Numbers 17:10; Numbers 17:11. The people are terrified, Numbers 17:12; Numbers 17:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take of every one_ Not of every person, but of every tribe. _A rod_ A twig, or branch, from one and the same _almond-tree_, as some infer from Numbers 17:8. Or, according to others, the ordinary rods which the princes of the tribes carried in their hands, as tokens of their dignity and authority, N... [ Continue Reading ]
_Aaron's name_ Rather than Levi's, for that would have left the controversy undecided between Aaron and the other Levites, whereas this would justify the appropriation of the priesthood to Aaron's family. _One rod_ There shall be in this, as there is in all the other tribes, only one rod, and that f... [ Continue Reading ]
_Before the testimony_ That is, before the ark of the testimony, close by the ark. _I will meet with you_ And manifest my mind to you, for the ending of this dispute.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The rod of Aaron was among their rods_ Was laid up with the rest, being either one of the twelve, as the Hebrews affirm, or the thirteenth, as others think.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Into the tabernacle_ Into the most holy place, which he might safely do under the protection of God's command, though otherwise none but the high-priest might enter there, and that only once in a year.... [ Continue Reading ]
_To be kept for a token_ It is probable, the buds, and blossoms, and fruit, (all which could never have grown together, but by miracle,) continued fresh, the same power which produced them in a night, preserving them for ages.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold we die, we perish_ Words of consternation, arising from the remembrance of these severe and repeated judgments, from the threatening of death upon any succeeding murmurings, and from the sense of their own guilt and weakness, which made them fear lest they should relapse into the same miscar... [ Continue Reading ]