Numbers 20:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. ”

• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to (f) sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I hav...

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• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  believed Me not. So Moses entered not in, because of unbelief. Me. Hence called "rebellion" in Numbers 20:24 with Numbers 27:14 . Compare Deuteronomy 32:51 . Compare "we" in Numbers 20:10 ....

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• Numbers 20:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron. God here both sets forth their crime, and pronounces its punishment. Now, whilst unbelief is in itself a gross and detestable evil, God aggravate...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 166 MOSES AND AARON SENTENCED TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS Numbers 20:12 . And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have gi...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Because ye believed me not— Various have been the inquiries as to what the fault of Moses and Aaron was for which they were excluded the promised land. Some imagine that their manner of speaking to...

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• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron. — We read in Psalms 106:33 that the Israelites “provoked (literally, made to rebel ) his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.” Whatever wa...

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• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do not fail to remark how the LORD deals in faithfulness. GOD will not allow iniquity in his people to go unrebuked. The tenor of the covenant indeed is, if the children (of the Redeemer) for...

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• Numbers 20:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE SIN OF MOSES ‘And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the...

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• Numbers 20:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron ,.... Out of the cloud, where his glory appeared, and still continued: because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel ; th...

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• Numbers 20:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have gi...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ye believed me not But showed your infidelity; which they did, either by smiting the rock, and that twice, which is emphatically noted, as if they doubted whether once smiting would have done it; w...

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• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ye believed me not, but showed your infidelity; which they did either by their looks and gestures, or rather by the matter and manner of their expressions and actions; either, 1. By smiting the r...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Yahweh Complains at Moses and Aaron Because They Have Not Sanctified Him in the Eyes of Israel and Punishes Them by Exclusion from The Land ( Numbers 20:12 ). Numbers 20:12 ‘And Yahweh said to...

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• Numbers 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - 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 20:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Water Out of the Rock.

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• Numbers 20:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:15 ; 2 Chronicles 20:20 ; Deuteronomy 1:37 ; Deuteronomy 3:23-26 ; Deuteronomy 32:49 ; Deuteronomy 32:50 ; Deuteronomy 32:51 ; Deuteronomy 34:4 ; Ezekiel 20:41 ; Ezekiel 36:23 ;...

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• Numbers 20:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye believed me not — But shewed your infidelity: which they did, either by smiting the rock, and that twice, which is emphatically noted, as if he doubted whether once smiting would have done it, w...

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