“ And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. ”
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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And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The conduct of Moses upon this occasion excited the LORD'S displeasure, and the reason is assigned more particularly: Numbers 27:12-14 . If the LORD be not sanctified by his people, he will be sanct...
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord ..... Which was laid up somewhere in the sanctuary, as well as the rod of Aaron, Numbers 17:7 : as he commanded him ; being always faithful and obedie...
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. Ver. 9. And Moses took the rod. ] The same rod that once smote the river, to destroy the Egyptians. The same word is a savour of l...
Take the rod That which was laid up before the Lord in the tabernacle; whether it was Aaron's rod, which was laid up there, ( Numbers 17:10 ,) or Moses's rod, by which he wrought so many miracles....
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...
The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. B. C. 1453. 1 Then...
i.e. Out of the tabernacle.
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...
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 20:1 . 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...
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...
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...
Water Out of the Rock.
Numbers 17:10
From before the Lord — Out of the tabernacle.