The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the (g) lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:
(g) Only Moses and Aaron, the heads of the people, struck the rock with the rod or staff, which gave water as a well that was deep digged.
Verse Numbers 21:18. _THE PRINCES DIGGED THE WELL - WITH THEIR STAVES._] This is not easily understood. Who can suppose that the princes dug this well with their _staves_? And is there any other idea...
This song, recognized by all authorities as dating from the earliest times, and suggested apparently by the fact that God in this place gave the people water not from the rock, but by commanding Moses...
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
AN ITINERARY. This continues Numbers 21:4 (and they journeyed from Mount Hor), but the immediate place of departure in Numbers 21:10 is omitted. In Numbers 33:42 f. two stations are inserted between H...
THEY WENT. No mention is made of any of these places in the itinerary in Numbers 33. Why not supply "[the waters or streams] went" into all these places? See Numbers 21:16. The Structure shows the sco...
Numbers 21:12. J E The Israelites arrived at a spot on the S.E. border of Moab, and then, having travelled northwards along its eastern boundary, penetrated westward till they reached the cliffs whic...
_with the_ RULER'S WAND, _with their staves_ These do not seem to be implements suitable for digging a well. But it is suggested by Budde that there is -an allusion to a custom by which when a well ha...
BY THE DIRECTION OF THE LAW-GIVER, WITH THEIR SLAVES— Houbigant renders this verse, _This is the well which the princes digged; which the nobles of the people digged in that place which their staff as...
G. BYPASSING MOAB vv. 10-20 TEXT Numbers 21:10. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11. And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is b...
_THE PRINCES DIGGED THE WELL, THE NOBLES OF THE PEOPLE DIGGED IT, BY THE DIRECTION OF THE LAWGIVER, WITH THEIR STAVES. AND FROM THE WILDERNESS THEY WENT TO MATTANAH:_ By the direction of the lawgiver...
21:18 lawgiver, (l-18) Or 'with the ruler's wand,' Genesis 49:10 ....
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
BY THE DIRECTION OF THE LAWGIVER. — Better, _with the ruler’s staff._ The same word occurs in Genesis 49:10, where it stands in parallelism to “the sceptre.” (See Note _in loc._) AND FROM THE WILDERNE...
בְּאֵ֞ר חֲפָר֣וּהָ שָׂרִ֗ים כָּר֨וּהָ֙ נְדִיבֵ֣י הָ...
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...
_Mathana. Perhaps they did not stop here, though all the encampments are not specified, chap. xxxiii. Nahaliel, "God my torrent," and Bamoth, "the heights," are also situated upon the Arnon._...
Oh! how sweet are songs of praise to the highest! I hope the Reader will not need that I should point out to him in this place, the evident traces we have in it of GOD the HOLY GHOST. It is well known...
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...
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...
THE PRINCES DIGGED THE WELL,.... The princes and heads of the several tribes: THE NOBLES OF THE PEOPLE DIGGED IT; the seventy elders, according to the Targum of Jonathan: BY THE DIRECTION OF THE LAW...
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah: Ver. 18. _The princes digged t...
_Spring up_ Hebrew, _ascend;_ that is, let thy waters, which now lie hid below in the earth, ascend for our use. It is either a prediction that it should spring up, or a prayer that it might. _With th...
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 princes digged the well, or, well dug for the princes, THE NOBLES OF THE PEOPLE DIGGED IT, hollowed it out, BY THE DIRECTION OF THE LAWGIVER, that is, with their scepters, as the symbols of their...
FROM OBOTH TO JESHIMON...
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...
10-20 We have here the removes of the children of Israel, till they came to the plains of Moab, from whence they passed over Jordan into Canaan. The end of their pilgrimage was near. "They set forwar...
THE PRINCES DIGGED; either by themselves, or by others whom they commanded to do it. _By the direction of the lawgiver_, or, _with the lawgiver_, i.e. Moses; they together with Moses, or they by Moses...
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...
6). JOURNEY FROM OBOTH TO THE PISGAH LOOKING TOWARDS JESHIMON (NUMBERS 21:11). From this point on there is no shortage of water, as they move via the Wadi Zered to the River Arnon. And the abundance o...
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...
_Spring up, O well._ A SONG OF THE PILGRIMAGE I. The needs of human pilgrimage. 1. How indispensable are the things which we need. 2. How many are the things which we need. 3. How constant are ou...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:10 These verses summarize Israel’s passage through the Transjordan, east of the Dead Sea, around the territory of Moab and through the land of the Amorites. Many of the plac...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:16 These verses celebrate finding an abundant WELL. ⇐...
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 END OF JOURNEYS, THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES (Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1)....
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...
1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Chronicles 17:7; Deuteronomy 33:4;...
With their staves — Probably as Moses smote the rock with his rod, so they struck the earth with their staves, as a sign that God would cause the water to flow out of the earth where they smote it, as...