Numbers 20:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! ”

Numbers 20:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional remonstrance handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal references.
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Would God. Figure of speech Eonismos (App-6). No Hebrew for "God "here. when. Compare Numbers 11:33 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Numbers 20:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Would God that we had died... — The reference seems to be to the plague which broke out after the insurrection of Korah. The language of the murmurers is very similar to that which is recorded in...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is very awful to consider in our corrupt nature, (for Israel in all ages is the same), that neither past judgments for rebellions, nor past mercies when dispensed instead of punishments, have any...
Numbers 20:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the people chode with Moses ,.... Contended with him in a wrangling and litigious manner, showing no reverence nor respect unto his person on account of the dignity of his office, and the many f...
Numbers 20:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! Ver. 3. And the people chode. ] Wanting both water and patience, they broke t...
Numbers 20:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Before the Lord Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering death. Their sin was much greater than that of their parents, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by the...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. B. C. 1453. 1 Then...
Numbers 20:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering and painful death. Their sin was much greater than their parents in like case, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by...
Numbers 20:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1). The Waters of Meribah ( Numbers 20:1-13 ). This first incident occurred through lack of water ( Numbers 20:1-13 ). Shortage of water in the hot and dry desert and semi-desert areas had been a...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - 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...
Numbers 20:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Murmuring of the People At Kadesh
Numbers 20:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 16:2 ; Exodus 16:3 ; Exodus 17:2 ; Job 3:10 ; Job 3:11 ; Lamentations 4:9 ; Numbers 11:1 ; Numbers 11:33 ; Numbers 11:34 ; Numbers 14:1 ; Numbers 14:2 ; Numbers 14:36 ; Numbers 14...
Numbers 20:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before the Lord — Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering death. Their sin was much greater than that of their parents, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by th...

Numbers 20:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 20:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 20:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 20:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 20:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 20:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 20:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 20:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 20:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 20:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes