Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the (t) plague was stayed.
(t) God drew back his hand and stopped punishing them.
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the (t) plague was stayed.
(t) God drew back his hand and stopped punishing them.
Verse Numbers 16:48. _HE STOOD BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING; AND THE_ _PLAGUE, C._] What the plague was we know not, but it seems to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regul...
A striking proof of the efficacy of that very Aaronic priesthood which the rebels had presumed to reject. The incense offering which had brought down destruction when presented by unauthorised hands,...
6. THE REBELLION OF KORAH CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The rebellion of Korah (Numbers 16:1)_ 2. The punishment (Numbers 16:20) 3. Eleazar and his work (Numbers 16:36) 4. The murmuring of the whole
NUMBERS 16. THE REBELLION OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM (JE and P). The narrative fuses together accounts of distinct revolts led by different individuals and inspired by different motives. The first ...
THE. Hebrew between the....
The people murmured at the death of Korah's company, and were punished by a plague, which ceased when Aaron made atonement with incense. In contrast to the action of the princes, the offering of ince...
DISCOURSE: 163 AARON’S INTERCESSION Numbers 16:48. _And he stood between the dead and the living: and the plague was stayed._ CORRUPT as human nature is, there are some sins which we scarcely think i...
E. THE FATAL PLAGUE vv. 41-50 TEXT Numbers 16:41. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lo...
_AND HE STOOD BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING; AND THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED._ Stood between the dead and the living. The plague seems to have begun in the extremities of the camp. Aaron, in this remarka...
THE REBELLION OF KOKAH, DATHAN, ABIBAM, AND ON This incident is similar to that recorded in Numbers 12, and while it illustrates the difficulties Moses encountered in his leadership, owing to the jeal...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM OPPOSE MOSES – NUMBERS 16:1-35 V1-2 Korah, Izhar’s son, belonged to Levi’s *tri
AND HE STOOD BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING... — Aaron was, in this respect, a striking type of Christ, who “hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour”...
_[Numbers 17:13]_ וַ יַּעֲמֹ֥ד בֵּֽין ־הַ מֵּתִ֖ים...
KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM Numbers 16:1; Numbers 17:1 BEHIND what appears in the history, there must have been many movements of thought and causes of discontent which gradually led to the events we n...
“BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING” Numbers 16:36 The censers served as plates for the altar. Even evil men and evil things will be made to subserve the divine purposes. See Acts 2:23. What a wonderful...
Here begins the story of perhaps the strangest and most fully organized opposition that Moses had to encounter. Two elements were at work. The first was ambition and the second was dissatisfaction. Th...
Here we see Aaron representing the LORD JESUS indeed! For surely there was nothing of holiness in Aaron, that could interpose between an offended GOD and perishing sinners. But beheld with an eye to J...
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...
48._And he stood between the living and the dead. _If _you _understand that the living were everywhere mingled with the dead, you may conjecture that God’s wrath did not so fall upon one part of the c...
Chapter 16 contains the open rebellion against Moses of Dathan and Abiram, but especially the pretension of the ministry in Israel to arrogate priesthood to itself. Some of the chiefs of the people we...
AND HE STOOD BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING,.... The plague beginning at one end of the camp, and so proceeded on, Aaron placed himself between that part of it wherein it had made havoc, and that whe...
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Ver. 48. _And he stood between._] A clear type of Christ....
_Between the dead and the living_ Whereby it may seem that this plague, like that fire, (Numbers 11:1,) began in the uttermost parts of the congregation, and so proceeded destroying one after another...
1 The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents, 31 The earth swalloweth vp Korah, and a fire consumeth others. 36 The censers are reserued to holy...
And he stood, placed himself like a valiant champion, BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING; AND THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED, shut off, confined to the place where it had broken out....
The Rebellion and the Punishment of the Congregation....
THE REBELLION OF KORAH (vs.1-15) The rebellion of Korah and a large company with him is significant of a dreadful revulsion against Christ both as Lord and High Priest of His people, and the awesome...
41-50 The gaping earth was scarcely closed, before the same sins are again committed, and all these warnings slighted. They called the rebels the people of the Lord; and find fault with Divine justic...
Whereby it may seem that this plague, like that fire, NUMBERS 11:1, began in the uttermost parts of the congregation, and proceeded, destroying one after another in an orderly manner, which gave Aaron...
The chapter on which we have just been dwelling, is what may be called a digression from the history of Israel's wilderness life, except indeed the short paragraph respecting the Sabbath-breaker, It l...
Numbers 16:48 stood H5975 (H8799) dead H4191 (H8801) living H2416 plague H4046 stopped H6113 (H8735)...
AT MOSES' WORD AARON STAYS THE PLAGUE BY OFFERING INCENSE ON HIS CENSER (NUMBERS 16:46). The purpose in what followed was to demonstrate that Aaron with his censer was a totally different thing from t...
CONTENTS: The gainsaying of Korah. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Korah, Dathan, Abriam. CONCLUSION: Proud and ambitious men projecting their own advancement by thrusting themselves into a place to...
Numbers 16:1. _Korah._ One of the firstborn, a very old man, and grandson of Levi by his father Jahar. _Dathan_ and _Abiram_ were descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; these according to the...
_On the morrow all the congregation. .. murmured._ TRANSGRESSION AND INTERCESSION I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder,...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 16:41 God sent a plague because ALL THE CONGREGATION falsely accused Moses and Aaron. God had chosen Aaron as high priest. Only he could minister atonement. AARON stopped the p...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the history of the rebellion of Korah and his company. The time and place of this event are not recorded. It is probable that it occurred in one...
EXPOSITION THE PLAGUE BEGUN AND AVERTED (Numbers 16:41-4). NUMBERS 16:41 YE HAVE KILLED THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD. They bad in truth forfeited their ow
Now we get to chapter sixteen and this guy Korah, who is brought into mention in the book of Jude, has gotten the conspiracy together. He is of the tribe of Levi and he said, "Hey Moses, you take too...
1 Chronicles 21:26; 1 Chronicles 21:27; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Timothy 2:5;...
The living — Whereby it may seem that this plague, like that fire, Numbers 11:1, began in the uttermost parts of the congregation, and so proceeded destroying one after another in an orderly manner, w...