And sent an angel— We have, in various parts of the preceding commentary, shewn, that this was the great Angel of the Covenant, or the Messiah. See Exodus 3:2; Exodus 14:19; Exodus 14:31. The word fields, in the next verse, means the cultivated lands; and the whole offer of the Israelites is, that they would pass through peaceably and quietly, without injury to any public or private property.
AN ANGEL - See Genesis 12:7, note; Exodus 3:2, note. The term is to be understood as importing generally the supernatural guidance under which Israel was....
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), to emphasize the importance of the place. See notes on Numbers 20:1....
_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...
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...
SENT AN ANGEL] see Exodus 3:2; Exodus 14:19....
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 SENT AN ANGEL. — See Exodus 3:2; Exodus 14:19. AND HATH BROUGHT US FORTH. — Better, _And brought us forth. _...
וַ נִּצְעַ֤ק אֶל ־יְהוָה֙ וַ יִּשְׁמַ֣ע קֹלֵ֔
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...
_Angel, who had performed so many wonders in favour of the Hebrews. He is generally supposed to have been St. Michael in the cloud._...
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...
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 WE CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... By reason of their bondage, and to be delivered from it, Exodus 2:24: HE HEARD OUR VOICE; their prayer to him, as the Targum of Jonathan, for help and deliverance...
And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: Ver. 16. _Sent...
_An angel_ The angel of the covenant, who first appeared to Moses in the bush, and afterward in the cloudy pillar, who conducted Moses and the people out of Egypt, and through the wilderness. For thou...
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 we cried unto the Lord, He heard our voice and sent an Angel, the Angel of the Lord in a special sense, the Son of God Himself, who was the Leader of the host of Israel, Exodus 14:19; Exodus...
The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage....
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...
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...
AN ANGEL, to wit, the Angel of the covenant, Christ Jesus, who first appeared to Moses in the bush, EXODUS 3:2, and afterward in the cloudy pillar, who conducted Moses and the people out of Egypt, and...
"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 20:16 out H6817 (H8799) LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 sent H7971 (H8799) Angel...
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...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:16 KADESH, A CITY ON THE EDGE OF YOUR TERRITORY. In the second millennium B.C., Edom’s main settlements were southeast of the Dead Sea. Kadesh-barnea (see note on 10:11–12:1...
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...
Exodus 14:10; Exodus 14:19; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 23:20;...
An Angel — The Angel of the Covenant, who first appeared to Moses in the bush, and afterward in the cloudy pillar, who conducted Moses and the people out of Egypt, and through the wilderness. For thou...