Bible Commentary

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any water to drink. And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt,…. They … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:5”

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness,…. The wilderness of Zin, whither by various marches and journeys, and through different stations, they were at length come: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:4”

And the people chided with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 3. And the people strove ] The root of the verb ( rbh) is also that of the word Merbhh (‘the place of strife’), the name of the place being thus explained by … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:3”

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 2 13. The striking of the rock at Meribah. Many characteristics of language indicate that this is mainly the work of P . In Exo 17:1-7 there is another account (E ) of the striking of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:2”

Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 1. and Miriam died there ] At what period this took place is not stated. The event has no connexion with the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 20:1”

And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even. The unclean person; not he who is so only by touching the water of separation, Num 19:21, but he who is so by the greater sort of uncleanness, which lasted seven days, of which Num … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:22”

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even. 21. The man who sprinkles the sacred water becomes ‘unclean’; and in the next clause it is stated more generally that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:21”

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean. Shall not purify himself, i.e, shall contemptuously refuse to submit to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:20”

And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 19. he shall wash his clothes &c.] The defiled person must do this … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:19”

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 18. The ’zbh (‘hyssop’) is not mentioned in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:18”