Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
2. And let the children of Israel &c.] If the text is correct some previous command or portion of the sentence has been lost. This may have been due to the transposition of the section from its original position. LXX. reads . . ., ‘speak and let the children of Israel keep.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
2-5. Let the children of Israel alsokeep the passover at his appointed season, c.The date of thiscommand to keep the passover in the wilderness was given shortlyafter the erection and consecration of the tabernacle and precededthe numbering of the people by a month. (Compare Num 9:1Num 1:1; Num 1:2).But it is narrated after that transaction in order to introduce thenotice of a particular case, for which a law was provided to meet theoccasion. This was the first observance of the passover since theexodus; and without a positive injunction, the Israelites were underno obligation to keep it till their settlement in the land of Canaan(Ex 12:25). The anniversary waskept on the exact day of the year on which they, twelve monthsbefore, had departed from Egypt; and it was marked by all thepeculiar ritesthe he lamb and the unleavened bread. The materialswould be easily procuredthe lambs from their numerous flocks andthe meal for the unleavened bread, by the aid of Jethro, from theland of Midian, which was adjoining their camp (Ex3:1). But their girded loins, their sandaled feet, and theirstaff in their hand, being mere circumstances attending a hurrieddeparture and not essential to the rite, were not repeated. It issupposed to have been the only observance of the feast during theirforty years’ wandering; and Jewish writers say that, as none couldeat the passover except they were circumcised (Exo 12:43;Exo 12:44; Exo 12:48),and circumcision was not practised in the wilderness [Jos5:4-7], there could be no renewal of the paschal solemnity.
Nu9:6-14. A SECONDPASSOVER ALLOWED.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover,…. Though this ordinance was enjoined the people of Israel, and observed by them at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and had been since repeated,
Le 23:5; yet without a fresh precept, or an explanation of the former, they seemed not to be obliged, or might not be sensible that they were obliged to keep it, until they came into the land of Canaan, Ex 12:25; and therefore a new order is given them to observe it:
at his appointed season; and what that season is is next declared.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Num 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Ver. 2. Keep the passover. ] This passover; for they kept no more but this, till they came into the land of Canaan, Jos 5:10 Exo 12:25 because of their often and uncertain removes. The feast of tabernacles likewise was for many ages omitted; or at least not in due manner observed, as by dwelling in booths, reading the book of the law, &c., Neh 8:16-18 which a man would wonder at. But Vexatio dat intellectum: those Jews were newly returned from captivity.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
keep: Exo 12:1-20
his appointed: Num 28:16, Exo 12:6, Exo 12:14, Lev 23:5, Deu 16:1, Deu 16:2, Jos 5:10, 2Ch 35:1, Ezr 6:19, Mar 14:12, Luk 22:7, 1Co 5:7, 1Co 5:8
Reciprocal: Exo 12:21 – and take Exo 23:15 – the feast Num 9:7 – we may not offer Num 9:13 – because Num 28:2 – General 2Ki 23:21 – as it is written Eze 45:21 – ye shall
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 9:2. Let the children of Israel keep the passover The first order for the observation of it being, that they should keep this service when they came to the promised land, (Exo 12:25,) they might have concluded there was no obligation upon them to keep it in the wilderness, had it not been for this special precept.