What a beautiful representation is here made of the conduct of the LORD'S servants. How charming doth grace appear, when a soul lies in silent humbleness and self-abasement before GOD? See Ezra 9:5. But Reader! raise your thoughts from the contemplation of the priests of old, to the contemplation of JESUS, the great high priest going in before the mercy-seat for his people. Revelation 8:3.
The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional remonstrance handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal references....
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...
NUMBERS 20:2 (mainly JE). THE LACK OF WATER SUPPLIED BY A MIRACLE. The account of the people's demand for water, and of the means by which it was supplied, seems to be a duplicate of the narrative in...
DOOR. entrance. TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _'ohel._ See App-40....
_The striking of the rock at Meribah_. Many characteristics of language indicate that this is mainly the work of P. In Exodus 17:1-7 there is another account (E) of the striking of the rock, the place...
B. SIN OF MOSES AT MERIBAH vv. 2-13 TEXT Numbers 20:2. And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3. And the people chode with...
_AND THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE CONGREGATION: AND THEY GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST AARON._ There was no water for the congregation. There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-mishp...
FELL UPON THEIR FACES] see on Numbers 16:4....
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...
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
וַ יָּבֹא֩ מֹשֶׁ֨ה וְ אַהֲרֹ֜ן מִ פְּנֵ֣י
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...
THE SIN OF MOSES AND AARON Numbers 20:1 Again the people, as the long years of their Wilderness life drew to an end, gathered around the Tabernacle at Kadesh. Again the murmuring spirit broke out, a...
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...
_And cried....to murmur. These words are not found in the Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., nor in the new edition of St. Jerome, though they occur in most of the Latin manuscripts. (Calmet) --- If it be an ad...
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...
6._And Moses and Aaron went from the presence. _It is probable that they fled in fear, inasmuch as the tabernacle was a kind of refuge for them from the violence of the people. Still, we may conjectur...
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 MOSES AND AARON WENT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE ASSEMBLY,.... Like fugitives, as Aben Ezra; they fled from them through fear, lest they should rise and fall upon them, and stone them, as their fathe...
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 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly, where they had heard the bitter complaint, UNTO THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION; AND THEY FELL UPON THEIR FACES, in helpless...
THE MURMURING OF THE PEOPLE AT KADESH...
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...
1-13 After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever w...
MOSES AND AARON WENT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE ASSEMBLY; partly to avoid the growing rage of the people, for God's singular protection of them did not exclude the use of ordinary means; and partly to g...
"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 20:6 Moses H4872 Aaron H175 went H935 (H8799) presence H6440 assembly H6951 door H6607 tabernacle H168 meeting...
THE PEOPLE COMPLAIN BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN DRAGGED AWAY FROM THE PLEASURES OF EGYPT AND MOSES AND AARON INTERCEDE BEFORE YAHWEH (NUMBERS 20:4). Numbers 20:4 “ And why have you (ye) brought the assem...
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...
_Neither is there any water to drink._ THE PRIVATIONS OF MAN AND THE RESOURCES OF GOD I. There are privations in the pilgrimage of human life. One man thinks that without health his life would be wor...
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 20:2__ Even though Moses’ error seems minor, v. Numbers 20:12 indicates that carelessness in responding to God’s command was the real issue: Bec
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...
1 Chronicles 21:16; Exodus 16:10; Exodus 17:4; Joshua 7:6; Matthew 26