Numbers 20:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. ”

• Numbers 20:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The command Numbers 20:8 was “Speak ye unto the rock.” The act of smiting, and especially with two strokes, indicates violent irritation on the part of Moses; as does also his unseemly mode of ad...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Numbers 20:2-13 (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 nar...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  his: i.e. Moses' tribal rod. Compare Numbers 20:8 . smote. Instead of speaking. twice. Showing the heat of his feeling. drank. Compare 1 Corinthians 10:4 , and see note there.

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• Numbers 20:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also .

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• Numbers 20:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ye...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH Numbers 20:1-29 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 disc...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Sin of Moses and Aaron Numbers 20:1-13 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 brok...

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• Numbers 20:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 o...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg the Reader to remark with me the abounding grace of GOD. Though Moses had failed in his commission, GOD will not fail in his promise. Had the LORD restrained the water because Moses took the co...

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• Numbers 20:11 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  AN ILL-TEMPERED LEADER ‘Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice.’ Numbers 20:10-11 This is a mem...

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• Numbers 20:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice ,.... At first it only brought out some drops, as Jarchi conjectures, and therefore Moses smote again, when it brought forth wa...

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• Numbers 20:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also]. Ver. 11. He smote the rock twice. ]...

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• Numbers 20:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. B. C. 1453.       1 Then...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To the men it was a sacrament, 1 Corinthians 10:3,4 , but to the beasts it was no holy, but a common thing. So that the elements in the sacraments have no inherent and inseparable holiness, but on...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Moses Strikes The Rock In Anger and Water Gushes Out ( Numbers 20:9-11 ). But Moses and Aaron were seething with anger. They had had enough of these treacherous people. First it had been their fa...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Numbers 20:10-11 (with Psalms 106:32-33 ) This is a memorable incident in the Jews' history, and it is rich in warning to us at this day. Moses had failed in his duty towards God, and that in...

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• Numbers 20:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 argume...

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• Numbers 20:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Numbers 20:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE LAST MARCH : FROM KADESH TO HOR ( Numbers 20:1-4 ). Numbers 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation. The latter words are emphatic...

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• Numbers 20:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Water Out of the Rock.

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• Numbers 20:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 13:10 ; 1 Chronicles 13:9 ; 1 Chronicles 15:13 ; 1 Chronicles 15:2 ; 1 Corinthians 10:4 ; 1 Kings 13:21-24 ; 1 Samuel 15:13 ; 1 Samuel 15:14 ; 1 Samuel 15:19 ; 1 Samuel 15:24 ;...

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