Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 6:27
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Num 6:27
Put My name upon the children of Israel.
The Christians Divine name
I. The name of God put upon his people indicates Gods love towards them.
II. The name of God put upon his people indicates the relationship in which they stand to God. Not only His friends, but His children.
III. The name of God put upon his people indicates Gods property in them
IV. The name of God put upon his people indicates their conformity to Gods will.
V. The name of God put upon his people indicates the resemblance they bear to god.
VI. The name of God put upon his people indicates the assurance they have of final union with God. (The Evangelical Preacher.)
Gods name upon His people:
Your old name is an ugly one. I suppose you know what your name is? If you have forgotten, let me remind you that your name is entered in Gods Book as sinner. I do not think you will be sorry to exchange that bad name for a better. I knew a lady once who had a very ugly name, and she could not bear to be called by it. She got all her friends to promise never to use it, and she always signed herself by a pretty name which she selected for herself out of many others. But of course, that never altered the fact that her real name was the old and ugly one. Just so, you may not like the name sinner, and you may call yourself by anything else, and persuade everybody that it does not belong to you, but that never alters the fact that you are a sinner. God gave you the name, and God alone can change it. But oh! if you long for a new name, tell Him so. He has one ready for you, and such a splendid, beautiful, adorable name! I will write on him My new name. (Eva Poole.)
Valued because of the Giver:
When our soldiers returned from that great succession of blunders, the Crimean War, those who had specially distinguished themselves were marshalled in a line to receive the crosses or medals which rewarded their valorous merit from the Queen. As she passed along the line she took the decorations one by one from a salver carried by her side and pinned it to the breast of the happy recipient. As she was pinning one on it slipped from her hand and fell to the ground. A little girl, who was near, picked it up and was proceeding to pin it to the soldiers breast, when he stepped a pace back and said, No; I do not value that piece of metal. It is the hand which bestows it I value. So with the gifts which God gives us here, though they are of themselves of priceless value, yet even more precious is the knowledge that they are bestowed by our heavenly Father..
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
i.e. Shall call them by my name, shall recommend them to me as my own people, and bless them and pray unto me for them as such; which is a powerful argument to prevail with God for them, and therefore hath been oft used by the prophets interceding for them, as Jer 14:9; Dan 9:18,19; compare 1Sa 12:22. I will bless them; I will ratify their blessings, and give those blessings to the people which the priests pray for.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel,…. Call them by his name, the people of the Lord; call upon the name of the Lord to bless them, and pronounce the blessing on them in the name of the Lord, in or by the name Jehovah, as Jarchi, three times used in this form of blessing:
and I will bless them; really and truly bless them bless them with blessings indeed; with all sorts of blessings temporal and spiritual; with solid and substantial ones; and such are blessed, and will remain so, their blessings are irrevocable and irreversible; and unless the Lord blesses, in vain do the priests bless, or any of his ministers pronounce a blessing; theirs lies in words and wishes, his in real facts; they can only pray and wish for the blessing, it is he only that can give it, and can ratify and confirm what they declare and pronounce, according to his revealed word. Some refer the relative “them” to the priests, as if the sense was, I will bless the priests that bless Israel, for God will bless them that bless his people; but Aben Ezra thinks it belongs both to Israel, and to the priests, that God would confirm and establish the blessing of the priests pronounced on Israel, and bless the priests also, who needed the divine blessing as well as the people, and being found in the way of their duty, might expect it: the Targum of Jonathan is,
“I will bless them in my Word;”
his essential Word, Christ, in whom his chosen ones are blessed with all spiritual blessings, and who is the promised seed, in whom all nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
This blessing was not to remain merely a pious wish, however, but to be manifested in the people with all the power of a blessing from God. This assurance closes the divine command: “ They shall put My name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
27. And they shall put my name. Although Jerome has rightly translated this, “They shall call upon my name:” yet since the Hebrew phrase is emphatic, I have preferred retaining it; for God deposits His name with the priests, that they may daily bring it forward as a pledge of His good will, and of the salvation which proceeds from thence. The promise, which is finally subjoined, gives assurance that this was no empty or useless ceremony, when He declares that He will bless the people. And hence we gather, that whatsoever the ministers of the Church do by God’s command, is ratified by Him with a real and solid result; since He declares nothing by His ministers which He will not Himself fulfill and perform by the efficacy of His Spirit. But we must observe that He does not so transfer the office of blessing to His priests, as to resign this right to them; for after having entrusted this ministry to them, He claims the accomplishment of the thing for Himself alone.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
27. They shall put my name The name of a man is the medium in which his personality floats from mind to mind. But the name of Jehovah, when thus invoked upon obedient Israel, signified more than that: it conveyed, in a measure, the attributes for which that name stands. Hence to ask in the name of Christ is to lay hold of his living and omnipresent personality as substantive and real. Professor Bush suggests that the blessing in the name of Jehovah is putting his name upon Israel. He thus translates the words, “And thus shall ye put my name,” etc. In Joh 17:12, Jesus says, “I kept them in thy name,” probably referring to the priestly benediction.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 6:27. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel A very strong Hebraism: which seems, as Ainsworth observes, to be an allusion to the ancient custom of laying on or lifting up of hands in bestowing benedictions, to signify the imposing the name or blessing of God upon the Israelites. “They shall bless them by calling upon the name of Jehovah, and recommending them to his paternal goodness.” Jonathan paraphrases the words of the text, “I will bless them in or by my word;” which is precisely the doctrine of St. Paul, who teaches us, that God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in, or by Christ: who, with the Holy Spirit; is most high in the glory of the Father.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
REFLECTIONS
HERE, my soul, let me stand and view, in the contemplation of the Nazarites, that holy Nazarite, that unequalled spotless SON of GOD, who for my sake separated himself from all that was corrupt in our nature, when in that nature he undertook and accomplished, the salvation of his people. Well is it for me that thou, blessed JESUS, hast fulfilled all righteousness on my behalf; for I groan daily, being burthened with the weight of corruption in my nature; and I feel that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. LORD, what power hath the remains of indwelling corruption in my nature over me! How little of the principles of the true Nazarite do I find in my heart! And yet, how earnestly do I desire to be dedicated unto GOD. Oh! precious JESUS! how sweet and endearing is it to my soul, that thou art here, as in every other instance, the LORD my righteousness.
Reader! let us not close the chapter, until that we have jointly bent the knee of prayer together, that our great High Priest and Saviour may pour upon us the precious blessing contained in it. FATHER of mercies! do thou bless us and keep us! Holy Saviour! cause thy face to shine upon us, and be gracious unto us! Eternal SPIRIT! lift up thy countenance upon us, and we shall be whole. LORD give us peace, even that peace in the blood of the cross, which shall both in time and in eternity keep our hearts and souls, in and through JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
put my: Exo 3:13-15, Exo 6:3, Exo 34:5-7, Deu 28:10, 2Ch 7:14, Isa 43:7, Jer 14:9, Dan 9:18, Dan 9:19, Mat 28:19
and I will: Num 23:20, Gen 12:2, Gen 12:3, Gen 32:26, Gen 32:29, 1Ch 4:10, Psa 5:12, Psa 67:7, Psa 115:12, Psa 115:13, Eph 1:3
Reciprocal: Deu 1:11 – and bless you 1Ch 13:6 – whose name 2Ch 6:33 – this house Isa 19:25 – the Lord Act 15:17 – the Gentiles 2Ti 2:19 – Let
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 6:27. Put my name Shall call them by my name, shall recommend them to me as my own people, and bless them, and pray unto me for them as such; which is a powerful argument to prevail with God for them.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
6:27 And they shall put my {m} name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
(m) They shall pray in my Name for them.