Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 9:6
They came before Moses For resolution of their difficulty. The law, mentioned Numbers 5:2, commanding such persons to be put out of the camp, was not yet made.
They came before Moses For resolution of their difficulty. The law, mentioned Numbers 5:2, commanding such persons to be put out of the camp, was not yet made.
CERTAIN MEN - Probably Mishael and Elizaphan, who buried their cousins, Nadab and Abihu, within a week of this Passover Leviticus 10:4....
7. PASSOVER AND JEHOVAH WITH HIS PEOPLE CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The command to keep the Passover (Numbers 9:1)_ 2. The Passover kept (Numbers 9:4) 3. Provision in case of defilement (Numbers 9:6) 4. Jehov...
REGULATIONS FOR A SUPPLEMENTARY PASSOVER. The institution of such, on the fourteenth day of the second (instead of the first) month, was required to meet the needs of those who were prevented by some...
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish_ or _'enosh,_ App-14. Probably Mishael and Elizaphan, who had buried Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1); they were thus rendered unclean, and could not keep the passover (Nu...
Uncleanness prevented any share in a sacrificial feast on pain of death (Leviticus 7:20), and contact with a dead body was a source of uncleanness (Numbers 19:11)....
THERE WERE CERTAIN MEN, WHO WERE DEFILED BY THE DEAD BODY, &C.— The reader should remember, that the case here mentioned, happened before the law was delivered, that is mentioned chap. Numbers 5:2. RE...
D. THE SECOND PASSOVER: A SUPPLEMENTARY OBSERVANCE (Numbers 9:1-14) TEXT Numbers 9:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were...
_AND THERE WERE CERTAIN MEN, WHO WERE DEFILED BY THE DEAD BODY OF A MAN, THAT THEY COULD NOT KEEP THE PASSOVER ON THAT DAY: AND THEY CAME BEFORE MOSES AND BEFORE AARON ON THAT DAY:_ There were certai...
RULES ABOUT THE PASSOVER. THE CLOUD AS GUIDE 1-5. The Passover of the second year. This Passover took place before the events narrated in Numbers 1 : cp. Numbers 9:1 with Numbers 1:1. The repetition o...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 THE *PASSOVER – NUMBERS 9:1-14 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses in the *desert called Sinai. It was the second ye
AND THERE WERE CERTAIN MEN... — It has been supposed that the reference is to Mishael and Elzaphan, who appear to have buried their cousins, Nadab and Abihu, about this time (Blunt’s “Script. Coincide...
וַ יְהִ֣י אֲנָשִׁ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָי֤וּ טְמֵאִים֙...
3. THE PASSOVER Numbers 9:1 The day fixed by statute for the feast which commemorated the deliverance from Egypt was the fourteenth of the first month-the year beginning with the month of the exodus....
KEEPING THE PASSOVER Numbers 9:1 The Passover was celebrated in Egypt, Exodus 12:1; in the Wilderness, Leviticus 1:14; and in the land of Canaan,...
As the time approached for entry to the land, the Passover feast was to be observed In the arrangements now made, the sweet reasonableness of the government under which the people lived was manifested...
And there were certain men, who were defiled (b) by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: (b) By touching...
Some. Hebrew, "and there was men," a solecism, rejected by the Samaritan and Arabic copies. (Houbigant) --- Man. That is, by having touched, or come near, a dead body, out of which the soul was depart...
I beg the Reader to take notice with me of the true marks of grace in the persons here mentioned; in that they felt the disadvantage they laboured under, in being kept back from the ordinance, and com...
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
6._And there were certain men. _A question is here introduced incidentally, viz., what must be done, if any sudden defilement should prevent any persons from celebrating the passover with the rest; si...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8 AND 9. Chapter 8 speaks of the candlestick. [1] The lamps were to make the light shine from it, and cause that light to be diffused around and before it. Th...
AND THERE WERE CERTAIN MEN WHO WERE DEFILED BY THE DEAD BODY OF A MAN,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, "who died by them suddenly,'' whereby pollution was contracted, see Numbers 6:9; though perhap...
And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: Ver. 6. _They could...
1 The Passeouer is commanded againe. 6 A second Passeouer allowed for them that were vncleane or absent. 15 The cloude guideth the remouings & incampings of the Israelites. 1 AND the LORD spake vnt...
THE SUBSTITUTE FESTIVAL, OR LITTLE PASSOVER...
And there were certain men, probably Mishael and. Elizaphan, Leviticus 10:4, WHO WERE DEFILED BY THE DEAD BODY OF A MAN, THAT THEY COULD NOT KEEP THE PASSOVER ON THAT DAY, Leviticus 19:28; AND THEY CA...
THE PASSOVER IN THE SECOND YEAR (vs.1-14) Though Moses and Israel ought to have remembered that God had commanded that the Passover be kept every year, yet this was evidently forgotten until God spok...
1-14 God gave particular orders for the keeping of this passover, and, for aught that appears, after this, they kept no passover till they came to Canaan, Joshua 5:10. It early showed that the ceremo...
BY THE DEAD BODY OF A MAN; by the touch of a dead body, or something belonging to it; _\see NUMBERS 19:11\_ because unclean persons were prohibited to eat of holy things. See LEVITICUS 8:20, LEVITICUS...
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover...
Numbers 9:6 men H582 defiled H2931 human H120 corpse H5315 could H3201 (H8804) keep H6213 (H8800) Passover...
THE DISMAY OF THOSE WHO THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN HAD MISSED OUT (NUMBERS 9:6). There were those who were unable to take part in the Passover because they were unclean with an uncleanness that la...
Numbers 9:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also kee...
CONTENTS: Law of the Passover; the guiding cloud. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Those who by circumstances are compelled to absent themselves from God's ordinances, may expect the favor...
Numbers 9:1. _The Lord spake._ Better, _The Lord had spoken._ See Numbers 1:1. Numbers 9:2. _The passover._ This was the second passover, and many have supposed that they used manna instead of unleave...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 9:6__ The regular PASSOVER of the “first month” was carried out properly (v. Numbers 9:5), but some people could not join in because they were u
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 9:1. This Passover, having been kept in the first month of the second year, preceded the numbering and the other events recorded in this book. For this reason so...
EXPOSITION THE PASSOVER AT SINAI (Numbers 9:1). NUMBERS 9:1 IN THE FIRST MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR. Before the census, and all the other events recorded in this hook, except in part the offerings o
In chapter nine, the Lord, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, there were certain men who came to Moses and they said, "When you kept the Passover we were unclean". That...
Exodus 18:15; Exodus 18:19; Exodus 18:26; John 18:28; Leviticus 21:11
THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS IN NUMBERS Numbers 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It may seem strange to us that the Book of Numbers, which is given, for the great part, to the numbering of the Israelites and the de...
They came — For resolution of their difficulty....