Numbers 27:1
DAUGHTERS. Compare Numbers 26:33.Joshua 17:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAUGHTERS. Compare Numbers 26:33.Joshua 17:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOOR. entrance. TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _'ohel._ App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIED. Compare Numbers 26:64; Numbers 26:65.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALT SURELY GIVE. Hebrew "a giving thou shalt give". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis. See note on Genesis 26:28. This command obeyed in Joshua 17:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO HIS KINSMAN. Compare note on Leviticus 18:6. A STATUTE OF JUDGMENT: or, regulative statute. Compare Numbers 35:29. AS. according to what.... [ Continue Reading ]
AARON. Compare Numbers 20:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
REBELLED. Compare Numbers 20:24. MY COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "My mouth". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, "mouth" put for what is spoken by it. WATER. Compare Exodus 17:7. Of another Meribah.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Elohim. God, the Creator of men and the spirits of men (Genesis 2:7), Who giveth the spirit to man, and takes it to Himself again (Ecclesiastes 12:7), and Who giveth all the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:12). SPIRITS. Plural of Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9. SET. or visit: i.e. provide a... [ Continue Reading ]
GO OUT... GO IN. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put for life in general, especially all official movements, and actions.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA. See note on Exodus 17:9. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_ (App-9). Put here by the Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the gifts of the Holy Spirit: here,. spirit of "wisdom" (Deuteronomy 34:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEAZAR THE PRIEST: because he had the breastplate with Urim and Thummim, and could alone give Joshua the decision or "judgment" of Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL STAND. take his stand. Hebrew. _'amad,_ as Numbers 27:2. COUNSEL. Supply _Ellipsis_ with the word "judgment" from next clause. FOR. by. AFTER. for. JUDGMENT. decision. URIM. the Urim. See note on Ex. Numbers 28:30. AT HIS WORD. at the mouth: i.e. of the Urim. WORD. commandment or ins... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDED. spake. See note on Numbers 1:1. BY THE HAND. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6 :. by the instrumentality or agency of the hand.... [ Continue Reading ]