Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Numbers 21:5
Verse Numbers 21:5. This light bread.] הקלקל hakkelokel, a word of excessive scorn; as if they had said, This innutritive, unsubstantial, cheat - stomach stuff.
Verse Numbers 21:5. This light bread.] הקלקל hakkelokel, a word of excessive scorn; as if they had said, This innutritive, unsubstantial, cheat - stomach stuff.
THIS LIGHT BREAD - i. e. “this vile, contemptible bread.”...
CHAPTER 21 Murmuring and Conquest _ 1. Opposition of King Arad (Numbers 21:1)_ 2. Murmuring and the fiery serpents (Numbers 21:4) 3. The serpent of brass (Numbers 21:8) 4. Journeying and singing
THE FIERY SERPENTS. This incident is alluded to by Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:9. The serpents are described as fiery by reason of the inflammation caused by their bite. The means whereby the injury they...
GOD _= Elohim._ They had lost sight of the covenant God, Jehovah. WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. OUR SOUL. we. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
_The bronze serpent_. God did not at once take away the plague. Each individual received healing only when he performed an act of faith, by looking at the serpent. An early Jewish writer says that it...
_our soul_[i.e. appetite] _loatheth this_ WORTHLESS _bread_ They despised the manna, declaring that it was useless for satisfying hunger....
_NUMBERS 21:4_. New provocations bring down new plagues upon them. We have here, 1. Their murmuring. Discouraged by the length and difficulties of the road, they not only quarrel with Moses, but speak...
AND THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOUNT HOR, BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA— Houbigant supposes that the word, which we render the Red-sea, _im-suph,_ is one word, denoting some principal place in that country; and...
F. INCIDENT OF THE BRASS SERPENT vv. 4-9 TEXT Numbers 21:4. And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged be...
_AND THE PEOPLE SPAKE AGAINST GOD, AND AGAINST MOSES, WHEREFORE HAVE YE BROUGHT US UP OUT OF EGYPT TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS? FOR THERE IS NO BREAD, NEITHER IS THERE ANY WATER; AND OUR SOUL LOATHETH TH...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 21 THE *ISRAELITES DEFEAT THE *CANAANITES – NUMBERS 21:1-3 V1 The king of Arad lived in the southern part of t
THIS LIGHT BREAD. — The word rendered _light_ denotes something vile or worthless. It was thus that the Israelites regarded the manna which was given to them from heaven; even as the “spiritual meat”...
וַ יְדַבֵּ֣ר הָ עָ֗ם בֵּֽ אלֹהִים֮ וּ
THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Numbers 21:1 IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the Israelites by the King of Arad took place on the occasion when, after the return...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT; JOURNEYING TO PISGAH Numbers 21:1 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fight the desert tribes, but it is harder to traverse the lon...
The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were discouraged. Again they felt a lusting after Egypt and spoke against...
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth...
God. They had before often directed their complaints against the two brothers. Now, Aaron being no more, they attack God himself, who had always resented the injury done to his ministers. --- Food. So...
What perpetual proofs doth Israel's history afford of the corruption and deceitfulness of the human heart? Reader! do not overlook, in the instance of this people, the universal conduct of mankind. Al...
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...
5._And the people spake against God and against Moses. _Either because they murmured against God in the person of Moses, or else because their impiety broke forth to such a furious extent, that they o...
The question is not here to conduct the people with patience through the wilderness, where the flesh manifested itself; but there are enemies and difficulties to be met; for there are difficulties dis...
AND THE PEOPLE SPAKE AGAINST GOD,.... Who went before them in the pillar of cloud and fire, for leading them in such a way; that is, against Christ, as the apostle has taught us to interpret it, 1 Co...
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth...
_The people spake against God_ Against Christ, their chief conductor, whom they tempted. _Our soul loatheth this light bread_ Thus contemptuously did they speak of manna, whereas it appears it yielded...
1 Israel with some losse destroy the Canaanites at Hormah. 4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents. 7 They repenting are healed by a brasen serpent. 10 Sundry iourneyes of the Israel...
THE FIERY SERPENTS...
And the people spake against God and against Moses, not rebelling openly, but murmuring against the divine guidance and the leading of Moses, WHEREFORE HAVE YE BROUGHT US UP OUT OF EGYPT TO DIE IN THE...
ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES (vs.1-3) The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same vicinity from which they had sent the spies into the south of Canaan. He therefore took the i...
4-9 The children of Israel were wearied by a long march round the land of Edom. They speak discontentedly of what God had done for them, and distrustfully of what he would do. What will they be pleas...
AGAINST GOD; against Christ, their chief Conductor, whom they tempted, 1 CORINTHIANS 10:9. THIS LIGHT BREAD, i.e. of small substance and virtue. Thus contemptuously do they speak of manna, whereas it...
This chapter brings prominently before us the familiar and beautiful ordinance of the brazen Serpent that great evangelical type. "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compa...
Numbers 21:5 people H5971 spoke H1696 (H8762) God H430 Moses H4872 up H5927 (H8689) Egypt H4714 die...
5). THE BRAZEN SERPENT (NUMBERS 21:4). Having defeated the king of Arad Israel continued its journey from Mount Hor by ‘the way to the Reed Sea', skirting the land of Edom. As they had been hoping to...
Numbers 21:1. And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israe...
CONTENTS: Victories of Israel; the serpent of brass. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Arad, Sihon, Og. CONCLUSION: Those who cry without cause will be given just cause to cry and they will be compelle...
Numbers 21:1. _King Arad;_ that is, Arad king of Arad. _The way of the spies,_ is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from Kadesh-Barnea. But the LXX not understanding it so, render it...
_Much discouraged because of the way._ ON THE DISCOURAGEMENTS OF PIOUS MEN I. I shall point out the discouragements in the way; and, in doing this, I shall keep my eye on the pilgrimage of the peopl...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:4__ The people once again grumble about their food. They are punished by poisonous snake bites. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 21:1. _King Arad the Canaanite_. Rather, “the Canaanite King of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaanites (Joshua 12:14), and was situated on a hill called...
EXPOSITION THE FIERY SERPENTS (Numbers 21:4). NUMBERS 21:4 THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOUNT HOR. It appears from comparison of Numb
Let's turn in our Bibles to Numbers chapter twenty-one. Now the children of Israel have been in the wilderness for about thirty-nine years and they are now beginning to make their move towards the Pro...
Exodus 14:11; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:2; Exodus 16:3;...
Against God — Against Christ, their chief conductor, whom they tempted, 1 Corinthians 10:19. Thus contemptuously did they speak of Manna, whereas it appears it yielded excellent nourishment, because i...