And the Lord spake unto Moses<\/strong>,…. Out of the cloud:<\/p>\n saying<\/strong>; as follows.<\/p>\n Verses 44-50:<\/strong><\/p>\n Once at Sinai (Ex 32:30-34) and again at Kadesh (Nu 14:13-19), God had announced His intention to destroy rebellious Israel. In both cases, Moses had interceded with God on their behalf, and God had altered His purpose. Now once again God determined to destroy them. There was nothing left for Moses to say. He fell on his face before the Lord, but arose quickly to see a devastating plague already beginning to sweep through the people.<\/p>\n Moses quickly instructed Aaron to take his censer, put incense upon it, and move among the people. Aaron did so at once. The text implies that the plague was spreading from one section of the camp to another, and Aaron stood with his censer between the living and the dead, until the plague was halted. This was vivid evidence that God had chosen Aaron as high priest, and the mediator between Israel and Himself.<\/p>\n The rapidity of the plague is evident in that 14,700 people died before Aaron could move among them.<\/p>\n Yahweh’s Threat Against the People ( Num 16:44-45<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> ).<\/strong> <\/p>\n But in fact the threat came from Yahweh. In a sense this whole interlude of the rebellion was an important one. The disillusionment of the people after the failure to enter the land, and the cancellation of their prospects for doing so, was such that there had to be an emphatic response which brought them to their senses. Otherwise the future would have been bleak indeed. It had required a threefold threat of their total destruction (Num 16:21<\/span>; Num 16:34<\/span>; Num 16:45<\/span>) <\/p>\n Num 16:44<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,’ <\/p>\n Yahweh again spoke to Moses and his words were clearly recorded. <\/p>\n Num 16:45<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “<\/strong> Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.’ <\/p>\n The message was one of doom. Moses and Aaron were to get themselves safely away from the congregation so that Yahweh could punish them for their attitude. As with Dathan and Abiram it would all happen ‘in a moment’. Having given them a second chance He was no longer willing to continue to spare them. <\/p>\n We must recognise in this that Yahweh was not being continually frustrated but was both proving the faithfulness and effectiveness of Moses and Aaron to the people, and at the same time demonstrating where the people would be (or would not be) without them. He wanted it to be clear to the people that the only reason why they were allowed to survive was because of His mercy and because of the faithfulness and intercession of His chosen servants whom He had appointed. <\/p>\n Once again the intrepid couple threw themselves on their faces before Yahweh and begged for His mercy. <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Psa 78:38 – But he<\/p>\n And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, And the Lord spake unto Moses,…. Out of the cloud: saying; as follows. Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible Verses 44-50: Once at Sinai (Ex 32:30-34) and again at Kadesh (Nu 14:13-19), God had announced His intention to destroy rebellious Israel. In both cases, Moses had … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 16:44”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"