CHILDREN. sons. SIN. Hebrew Bush. COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "mouth". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). App-6. Mouth put for what is spoken by it. the LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. Rephidim. reclining places. Two stations omitted here. Compare 17. Numbers 33:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHIDE. Murmuring was good policy. They would not "dig" (as at Beer and Elim). to "beg "they were not ashamed. "Give us water. "See note on Exodus 15:24. WHY CHIDE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. WHEREFORE. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Sept, a... [ Continue Reading ]
US. Hebrew. _he._ Figure of speech _Heterosis (of'_ Number). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY BE ALMOST READY. Hebrew "yet. little and they will". Moses, David, Jeremiah, Stephen, Paul, and the Lord Jesus suffered from stoning or its threatening... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD (HEBREW. _ JEHOVAH._ SAID. See note on Exodus 3:7, and compare note on Exodus 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._ I WILL STAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. ROCK:. type of Christ. Frequently referred to (Deuteronomy 32:4; Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 32:18; Deuteronomy 32:31; Deuteronomy 32:37; 1 Samuel 2:2.Psalms 18:2;... [ Continue Reading ]
MASSAH. Temptation. Tempting of God. Meribah. Strife. Striving with Moses. TEMPTED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia.App-6. (i.e._ tempting Jehovah to cut them off).... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME AMALEK. See on Genesis 21:25 and Judges 5:11. Amalek came to fight for the water. Compare Deuteronomy 25:17; Deuteronomy 25:18. Amalek came behind and attacked the rear, and he "feared not God", Deuteronomy 25:8. AMALEK, Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for Amalekites.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA. First occurance. (250 times in all). Hebrew. _Jehoshua._ Now fifty-three years of age. Hence. bondman in Egypt. Twenty-seven years younger than Moses. See App-50. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish or 'enesh._ App-14. FIGHT. There was. large population in the peninsula at this time.. wilderness,... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. MOSES (prophet), Aaron (priest), Hur (royal tribe, Judah). HUR. Hebrew noble or well-born. The son of Caleb, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 2:4; 1 Chronicles 2:5; 1 Chronicles 2:18; 1 Chronicles 2:19). Josephus makes him the... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN. according as. HAND. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "hands". Compare Exodus 17:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAVY. weary.... [ Continue Reading ]
EDGE. Hebrew mouth. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. sword in the Plain: Rod of God on the mount (Exodus 17:9): Jehovah above all (Exodus 17:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD (Hebrew. _Jehovah._ said. See notes on Exodus 3:7 and Exodus 6:10. WRITE. First occurrence. The tablets found at Lachish and Tel-el-Amarna show that writing of. high order was fully developed before the time of Moses. IN. BOOK. Hebrew "in the book" _(bassepher)._ This writing afterward or... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOVAH-NISSI. " Jehovah [is] my banner. "One of the Jehovah titles. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD. Jah. See App-4. HATH SWORN. The margins of Authorized Version and Revised Version show the perplexity caused by the _Ellipsis_. of the verb. "Surely the hand [lifted up] upon the banner of Jah [is to swear]: for the war of Jehovah against Amalek is to be from generation to generation". So it w... [ Continue Reading ]