Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 27:22
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him,…. Being faithful and obedient to him in all things, though ever so contrary to his own private interest and to that of his family:
and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; as his successor, whom God had named and appointed as such.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Execution of the divine command.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
22. All the congregation The assembled heads of the people or college of elders, in distinction from “all the children of Israel.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The conduct of Moses, in so cheerfully obeying the LORD, is ever to be admired and applauded; and we should desire grace to imitate it. Moses had his relations; and naturally, no doubt, had it pleased the LORD, he might have been glad to have seen one of them taken for his successor. But grace enabled him to triumph over nature; and to prefer GOD’S honour and glory to every worldly private interest. Reader! may the LORD give us grace to do so upon all the lesser occasions with which we may be exercised through life; and to say with those of old, that we prefer the interests of Jerusalem above our chief joy. Psa 137:6 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 1Ch 6:50 – Eleazar