Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 20:29
Saw Understood by the relation of Moses and Eleazar, and by other signs. Thirty days The time of public and solemn mourning for great persons.
Saw Understood by the relation of Moses and Eleazar, and by other signs. Thirty days The time of public and solemn mourning for great persons.
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...
SAW. Hebrew. _ra'ah,_ to perceive, understand. Compare Genesis 16:13; Genesis 42:1.Exodus 20:18. DEAD. The death of Aaron coincides with the end of the wanderings. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on...
_The death of Aaron_....
THEY MOURNED FOR AARON THIRTY DAYS— For such was the usual time of mourning for great persons: they mourned so long for Moses. Deuteronomy 34:8. Hence, probably, arose the custom among the Greeks, whi...
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...
_AND WHEN ALL THE CONGREGATION SAW THAT AARON WAS DEAD, THEY MOURNED FOR AARON THIRTY DAYS, EVEN ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL._ When all the congregation saw. Moses and Eleazar were the sole witnesses of...
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...
The death of Aaron removed the second greatest figure from among the Israelites, and their first high priest. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews contrasts the human priesthood, which is imperfec...
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
וַ יִּרְאוּ֙ כָּל ־הָ֣ עֵדָ֔ה כִּ֥י גָוַ֖ע
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...
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...
_Dead, in the 123d year of his age. (Menochius) --- Neither Moses, Aaron, nor Mary, representing the Law, the priests, and the prophets of the Old Testament, could introduce the people into the promis...
It must have been a very affecting circumstance to Moses, Eleazar, and the people, when he and Eleazar returned from the mount without Aaron. But surely it was that kind of mourning which the apostle...
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...
29._And when all the congregation saw. _This has been an error common to almost all nations and ages, but which reigned peculiarly amongst the people of Israel — to pay due honor to God’s holy servant...
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 WHEN ALL THE CONGREGATION SAW THAT AARON WAS DEAD,.... Not that they saw his dead body, but they perceived by the relation of Moses, and by various circumstances, as not seeing Aaron come down, 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...
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, his death having taken place on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt, Numbers 33:37, when he was...
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...
i.e. WHEN THE CONGREGATION understood by the relation of Moses and Eleazar, and by other signs. So _seeing_ is used GENESIS 42:1 ACTS 7:12. THIRTY DAYS; the time of public and solemn mourning for grea...
"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 20:29 congregation H5712 saw H7200 (H8799) Aaron H175 dead H1478 (H8804) house H1004 Israel H3478 mourned...
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....
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...
2 Chronicles 35:24; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Acts 8:2; Deuteronomy 34:8;...
Saw — Understood by the relation of Moses and Eleazar, and by other signs. Thirty days — The time of publick and solemn mourning for great persons....