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Numbers 27:1 open_in_new
daughters. Compare Numbers 26:33.Joshua 17:3.
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Numbers 27:2 open_in_new
door. entrance.
tabernacle. tent. Hebrew. 'ohel. App-40.
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Numbers 27:3 open_in_new
died. Compare Numbers 26:64; Numbers 26:65.
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Numbers 27:4 open_in_new
Why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
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Numbers 27:6 open_in_new
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.
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Numbers 27:7 open_in_new
shalt surely give. Hebrew "a giving thou shalt give". Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for emphasis. See note on Genesis 26:28. This command obeyed in Joshua 17:4.
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Numbers 27:8 open_in_new
children. sons.
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Numbers 27:11 open_in_new
unto his kinsman. Compare note on Leviticus 18:6.
a statute of judgment: or, regulative statute. Compare Numbers 35:29.
as. according to what.
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Numbers 27:13 open_in_new
Aaron. Compare Numbers 20:24.
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Numbers 27:14 open_in_new
rebelled. Compare Numbers 20:24.
My commandment. Hebrew "My mouth". Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, "mouth" put for what is spoken by it.
water. Compare Exodus 17:7. Of another Meribah.
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Numbers 27:16 open_in_new
God. Elohim. God, the Creator of men and the spirits of men (Genesis 2:7), Who giveth the spirit to man, and takes it to Himself again (Ecclesiastes 12:7), and Who giveth all the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:12).
spirits. Plural of Hebrew. ruach. See App-9.
set. or visit: i.e. provide and appoint. man. Hebrew 'is h. See App-14.
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Numbers 27:17 open_in_new
go out... go in. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, put for life in general, especially all official movements, and actions.
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Numbers 27:18 open_in_new
Joshua. See note on Exodus 17:9.
spirit. Hebrew. ruach (App-9). Put here by the Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the gifts of the Holy Spirit: here,. spirit of "wisdom" (Deuteronomy 34:9).
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Numbers 27:19 open_in_new
Eleazar the priest: because he had the breastplate with Urim and Thummim, and could alone give Joshua the decision or "judgment" of Jehovah.
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Numbers 27:21 open_in_new
he shall stand. take his stand. Hebrew. 'amad, as Numbers 27:2.
counsel. Supply Ellipsis with the word "judgment" from next clause.
for. by.
after. for.
judgment. decision.
Urim. the Urim. See note on Ex. Numbers 28:30.
at his word. at the mouth: i.e. of the Urim.
word. commandment or instruction, "word" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for what is spoken by the mouth.
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Numbers 27:23 open_in_new
commanded. spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.
by the hand. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 :. by the instrumentality or agency of the hand.