Numbers 20:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there. ”

• Numbers 20:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The priestly garments, wherewith Moses had invested Aaron Leviticus 8:7-9 , were put upon Eleazar by way of solemn transference of Aaron’s office to him; compare 1 Kings 19:19 .

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• Numbers 20:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Death of Aaron (P).- Mt. Hor, the scene of Aaron's death, has been identified by some with Jebel Maduran, an isolated hill not far from the S. end of the Dead Sea, which must have been near to...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  unto his people. Figure of speech Ellipsis, supplied from Numbers 20:24 .

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• Numbers 20:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people , and shall die there. Strip Aaron of his garments - This was, in effect, depriving hi...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Strip Aaron, &c.— This implied a solemn divesting Aaron of his office, and appointing Eleazar his successor in dignity and employment. The garments here mentioned were the robes of the high pri...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. Aaro...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And strip Aaron of his garments. — Thus the same hands which had invested Aaron with the sacred garments were employed in divesting him of them, and, in both cases, in obedience to the express comm...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Edom Refuses Passage; Aaron Dies Numbers 20:14-28 It was an ungracious act on the part of the Edomites-descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother-to forbid the passage of the chosen people through th...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There is somewhat very interesting in this account, short as it is, of the close of Aaron's ministry. He ascends the mount it should seem with much cheerfulness and holy resignation, though he knew t...

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• Numbers 20:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And strip Aaron of his garments ,.... His priestly garments, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi: and put them upon Eleazar his son ; thereby declaring him to be high priest in his father's s...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  His garments His priestly garments, in token of his resignation of his office. Put them upon Eleazar By way of admission and inauguration to his office. In the sight of all the congregation Tha...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Edomites Refuse a Passage to Israel; The Death of Aaron. B. C. 1452.       22 And the ch...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of his garments, to wit, of his priestly garments, Exodus 28:2 Leviticus 8:7-9 , in token of his resignation of his office. See the like Isaiah 22:15 , Isaiah 22:19-21 . Put them upon Elea...

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• Numbers 20:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  3). The Death of Aaron ( Numbers 20:22-29 ). This advance forward was evidence of a new beginning. This was confirmed by the fact that as a result of his sins over the Cushite wife of Moses ( Num...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Numbers 20:23-29 I. We may learn a salutary lesson from the death of Aaron in its merely literal bearing. Aaron, the high-priest, had to ascend Mount Hor clad in his priestly robes of office; but...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Aaron died there in the top of the mount. The death of Aaron The first and most superficial aspect of death is that it is the close of an earthly career. What kind of career was it that was bro...

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• Numbers 20:26 - 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 20:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  the death of aaron

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• Numbers 20:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 29:29 ; Exodus 29:30 ; Hebrews 7:11 ; Hebrews 7:23 ; Hebrews 7:24 ; Isaiah 22:21 ; Isaiah 22:22

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• Numbers 20:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  His garments — His priestly garments, in token of his resignation of his office. Put them on Eleazar — By way of admission and inauguration to his office.

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