Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:24
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
This was one, but not the only reason. God would not have Moses and Aaron to carry the people into Canaan, for this reason also, to signify the insufficiency of the Mosaical and Aaronical priesthood to make them happy, and the necessity of a better, and so to keep the Israelites from resting in them so as to be taken off from their expectation of Christ, and from the entertainment of him when he should come.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
24-28. Aaron shall be gathered untohis peopleIn accordance with his recent doom, he, attired inthe high priest’s costume, was commanded to ascend that mountain anddie. But although the time of his death was hastened by the divinedispleasure as a punishment for his sins, the manner of hisdeath was arranged in tenderness of love, and to do him honor at theclose of his earthly service. His ascent of the mount was to affordhim a last look of the camp and a distant prospect of the promisedland. The simple narrative of the solemn and impressive sceneimplies, though it does not describe, the pious resignation, settledfaith, and inward peace of the aged pontiff.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people,…. That is, shall die, for this phrase is a periphrasis of death, and is used in common both of good and bad men, and designs death in general, without regard to persons and places men go to at death:
for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel; the land of Canaan; and Aaron the priest, and so Moses the lawgiver, not being suffered to enter into that land, show the weakness and imperfection of the law, and of the Levitical priesthood, and the insufficiency of them, and of obedience to them to bring men to, and give them an entrance into the heavenly glory; that is done by another person, the antitype of Joshua, even Jesus:
because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah; that is, you Moses and Aaron; their unbelief is called a rebelling against the word of the Lord, for which it was threatened them, that they should not bring the people of Israel into the land of Canaan, and now the threatening begins to take place, see Nu 20:12.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(24) Shall be gathered unto his people.This expression does not refer to the place of sepulture. (See Gen. 25:8. and Note.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
24. Shall be gathered unto his people This phrase is a Hebrew euphemism for death, as is seen in Num 20:26. “Merciful men are gathered, none considering that the righteous is gathered from the evil to come.” See the Hebrew of Isa 57:1. Thus David was gathered unto his fathers. See the Greek of Act 13:36. “His people” are “the spirits of just men made perfect.” That this “gathering” has reference to the soul, see David’s prayer, Psa 26:9.
Because ye rebelled Evinced a spirit not in harmony with Jehovah’s will. See Num 20:12, where the sin is stated, “because ye believed not.” The two statements are harmonized by the consideration that unbelief is the root and essence of every sin. Joh 16:9, note.
Meribah Num 20:13, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 20:24. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for, &c. See Gen 25:8. It is an indisputable proof, as Bishop Patrick well observes, that the earthly Canaan was not the utmost felicity at which God’s promises to the Israelites aimed, since the best men among them were excluded from it: the subsequent words in this verse are so strong, and give such an idea of an obstinate incredulity, that one is led to imagine that the whole crime of Moses and Aaron is not recorded in this chapter.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Num 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Ver. 24. Ye rebelled. ] In that ye smote the rock, and smote it twice: he spoke bitterly also to the people, calling them rebels, and slighting them. This is called rebellion here. Every man’s heel hath some iniquity, as dirt, cleaving to it: and the greatest lamps have needed snuffers.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
gathered. Figure of speech Euphemismos (App-6) for dying = die, and be buried as all his fathers were, Sheol being the grave. See App-35. Compare Gen 25:8. Psa 26:9. Act 13:36.
word. Hebrew “mouth”. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what was spoken by it. Compare Num 20:12.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
gathered: Num 27:13, Num 31:2, Gen 15:15, Gen 25:8, Gen 25:17, Gen 35:29, Gen 49:29, Gen 49:33, Deu 32:50, Jdg 2:10, 2Ch 34:28
because ye: Num 20:11, Num 20:12
word: Heb. mouth, Num 4:27, *marg. Deu 32:50
Reciprocal: Num 27:14 – Meribah Num 33:38 – General Deu 32:51 – ye trespassed 1Ki 13:21 – thou hast disobeyed Psa 81:7 – proved Psa 99:8 – though Psa 106:32 – so that Ecc 3:2 – and a time Eze 2:8 – Be Jon 4:4 – Doest thou well to be angry 1Co 11:30 – many Eph 4:26 – ye
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 20:24. Because ye rebelled This was one, but not the only reason. God would not have Moses and Aaron to carry the people into Canaan, for this reason also, to signify the insufficiency of the Mosaical law and Aaronical priesthood to make them perfectly happy, and the necessity of a better dispensation, and to keep the Israelites from resting in them, so as to be taken off from their expectation of the Messiah.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
20:24 Aaron shall be {l} gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
(l) Read Gen 25:8.