Numbers 17:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

The Rod of the Chosen One Will Bud and Put an End to Murmuring (Numbers 17:5).

Numbers 17:5

‘And it will come about, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose will bud, and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.'

Then Yahweh would make the rod of the man that Yahweh had chosen spring to life and bud. This final display on Yahweh's initiative should cause all further murmurings against Moses and Aaron on the question of who had the right of priesthood to cease.

Numbers 17:5

5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.