Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 20:14
All the travail All the wanderings and afflictions of our parents, and of us their children, which doubtless have come to thine ears.
All the travail All the wanderings and afflictions of our parents, and of us their children, which doubtless have come to thine ears.
Verse Numbers 20:14. _SENT MESSENGERS - UNTO THE KING OF EDOM_] Archbishop Usher supposes that the king now reigning in Edom was _Hadar_, mentioned Genesis 36:39. _THUS SAITH THY BROTHER ISRAEL_] Th...
Compare the marginal reference. It appears from comparing Numbers 20:1 with Numbers 33:38, that the host must have remained in Kadesh some three or four months. No doubt time was required for re-organ...
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...
ISRAELS ABORTIVE APPEAL TO EDOM (JE). Israel's desire to cross Edom was due to the wish to attack Canaan on the E. instead of on the S., where they had met with defeat (Numbers 14:45). As Kadesh was W...
BEFALLEN US. "found us". Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
_thy brother Israel_ Edom was a Semitic tribe, closely connected with Israel by blood. In Genesis 25:21-26 Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) are represented as twin brothers. _the travail_ lit. -the wea...
_Permission to pass through Edom refused_. The Edomites occupied territory to the south of the Dead Sea, westward as far as Kadesh (Numbers 20:16) and southward as far as the eastern arm of the Red S...
AND MOSES SENT MESSENGERS— The kingdom of Edom, founded by the posterity of Esau, was originally governed by dukes; Genesis 36:15 but at this time it was governed by kings. The learned Usher is of opi...
C. PASSAGE REFUSED THROUGH EDOM vv. 14-21 TEXT Numbers 20:14. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befalle...
_AND MOSES SENT MESSENGERS FROM KADESH UNTO THE KING OF EDOM, THUS SAITH THY BROTHER ISRAEL, THOU KNOWEST ALL THE TRAVAIL THAT HATH BEFALLEN US:_ Moses sent messengers ... unto the king of Edom. The...
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...
THY BROTHER] see above, and cp. Deuteronomy 23:7; Genesis 25:30; Genesis 36:8; Genesis 36:9. The unnatural hostility of the Edomites on another
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 MOSES SENT MESSENGERS FROM KADESH... — The date of the occurrence related in this and the following verses is not stated. It might be inferred frem Judges 11:16 that the message to the Kings of Ed...
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֧ה מַלְאָכִ֛ים מִ קָּדֵ֖שׁ...
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...
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of (i) Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: (i) Because Jacob or Israel was Esau's brother, who...
_Cades, not far from Mount Hor, on the confines of Idumea, ver. 22, and Judges xi. 16. (Calmet)_...
The Reader will recollect the relationship by nature between Israel and Edom. Israel sprung from Jacob, and Edom from Esau. One might have thought (speaking after the manner of men), that such affinit...
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...
Numbers 20:14._Thou knowest all the travel that hath befallen us. _This preface was well calculated to conciliate favor, when the sons of Jacob, descended from the same blood, familiarly approached th...
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 MOSES SENT MESSENGERS FROM KADESH UNTO THE KING OF EDOM,.... This country was sometimes governed by kings, and sometimes by "dukes", see Genesis 36:14. At the time of the passage of the Israelites...
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: Ver. 14. _Thus saith thy brother._] "A brother is born...
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...
The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage....
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, since the plan of entering into Canaan from the east made it necessary for the people to pass through the country inhabited by the descenda...
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...
BEFALLEN...: _ Heb._ found us...
14-21 The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel encamped, was through the country of Edom. The ambassadors who were sent returned with a denial. The Edomites feared to receive damage by t...
MOSES SENT MESSENGERS, by God's direction, DEUTERONOMY 2:1 THY BROTHER; for _was not Esau (who is Edom_, GENESIS 36:1) _Jacob's brother_ ? ZECHARIAH 1:2. _All the travel_; all the wanderings an
"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 20:14 Moses H4872 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 Kadesh H6946 king H4428 Edom H123 says H559 ...
2). THE APPEAL TO EDOM (NUMBERS 20:14). The incident at Meribah was followed by an appeal to Edom to be allowed to use the King's Highway through their territory. Compare here Deuteronomy 2:4. The mar...
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...
_Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border._ A reasonable request, and an ungenerous refusal:-- I. A reasonable request. 1. Reasonable in itself. 2. Urged by forcible reasons. (1) Th...
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 20:14__ YOUR BROTHER ISRAEL. Esau (Edom) was the twin brother of Jacob (Israel); see Genesis 25:24. The Edomites were therefore the
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...
Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 23:7; Exodus 18:8; Genesis 32:3; Genes
All the travel — All the wanderings and afflictions of our parents and of us their children, which doubtless have come to thine ears....