Numbers 10:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. ”

• Numbers 10:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the Kohathites set forward, (h) bearing the sanctuary: and (i) [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came. (h) Upon their shoulders. (i) The Merarites and Gershonites.

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• Numbers 10:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Departure from Sinai. The stay at Sinai lasted about 11 months ( cf. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1 ), and the people now moved to the wilderness of Paran (the modern El Tih), N. of Sinai....

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• Numbers 10:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the other: i.e. the Gershonites and Merarites. See Numbers 10:17 .

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• Numbers 10:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

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• Numbers 10:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the other did set up the tabernacle— The other is not in the text: Calmet explains it, "that the Kohathites set up the tabernacle against they, i.e. the priests, arrived." Houbigant renders...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. They first took their journey ... by the hand of Moses. It is probable that Moses, on the brea...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Departure from Sinai 12. Paran] see on Exodus 15:22 . They do not actually reach Paran till Exodus 12:16 .

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• Numbers 10:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  3. THE ORDER OF MARCH Numbers 10:11-28 The difficulties connected with the order of march prescribed in this passage have been often and fully rehearsed. According to the enumeration given in c...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Come Thou with Us” Numbers 10:17-36 The invitation of Moses to Hobab is one that we may all give to our friends: “We are journeying to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.” “We should alwa...

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• Numbers 10:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The use of trumpets in the history of the people is full of interest and here we find instructions concerning it. They were intended to call the people to attention, that led to obedience. The blast...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  No doubt the order, here pointed out by divine authority, was not without particular significance. But it should seem, from a passage in the Psalms, that each tribe had a special regard to the divine...

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• Numbers 10:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Kohathites set forward ,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psalms 80:2 ; bearing t...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The others The Gershonites and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of it...

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• Numbers 10:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  TWO SILVER TRUMPETS (vs.1-10) We have seen in the cloud and the fire the providential guidance of God over His people. Yet we are not left to depend totally upon this, for now the trumpets speak...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Removal of the Camp. B. C. 1490.       11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The other, i.e. the Gershonites and Merarites, as is evident both from their work and office, which was to take down and set up the tabernacle, Numbers 3:25,26 Numbers 4:22-33 ; and from Num...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Levites Who Bore the Holy Things ( Numbers 10:21 ) Numbers 10:21 ‘And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the others set up the tabernacle in readiness for their comin...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 10:1-10 . Instructions for signalling the movements of the camp are properly inserted here as one of the necessary preliminaries for the march which was about...

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• Numbers 10:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 10:2 . Two trumpets, for the two sons of Aaron. We also read that one hundred and twenty priests had each of them a trumpet. 2 Chronicles 5:12 . Numbers 10:10 . Ye shall blow with the...

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• Numbers 10:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The standard of the camp. The Divine standard to be maintained There are few things in which we are more prone to fail than in the maintenance of the Divine standard when human failure has set...

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• Numbers 10:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE ORDER OF MARCH FROM SINAI ( Numbers 10:11-4 ). Numbers 10:11 On the twentieth day of the second month. This answered approximately to our May 6th, when the s...

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• Numbers 10:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Departure from Sinai

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• Numbers 10:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 15:12-15 ; 1 Chronicles 15:2 ; Numbers 2:17 ; Numbers 3:27-32 ; Numbers 4:4-16 ; Numbers 7:9 ; Numbers 1:51 ; Numbers 10:17

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• Numbers 10:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The others — The Gershonites, and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of...

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