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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Numbers
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 203,866 words · 574 reading sections
Numbers 34:9
Numbers 34:9 Ver. 9. And the border shall go on to Ziphron,.... Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom {s} says, that in his time this city was called Zephyrium, a town in Cilicia; but this seems to be at too great a distance: and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan; which was the utmost o…
133 wordsSECTION 542Numbers 34:10
Numbers 34:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham. From the place where the northern border ended, which Jerom says {u} the Hebrews call Apamia, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem do here. Shepham was a city between Hazarenan and Riblah in the tribe of Naphtali, where …
74 wordsSECTION 543Numbers 34:11
Numbers 34:11 Ver. 11. And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah,.... Said to be in the land of Hemath, Jer 52:9, which, according to Jerom {x}, was Antioch of Syria; and both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem understand by it Daphne, which was in the suburbs of Antioch; but this seems to be carrying the …
194 wordsSECTION 544Numbers 34:12
Numbers 34:12 Ver. 12. And the border shall go down to Jordan,.... A well known river to the east of the land of Canaan: and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea; the sea of Sodom; and though all sea water is generally salt, this was remarkably so, through the great quantity of bitumen and nitre in it; hence…
146 wordsSECTION 545Numbers 34:13
Numbers 34:13 Ver. 13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying,.... Strictly enjoining them to observe what he was about to say to them: this is the land which ye shall inherit by lot; as above described and bounded: which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe; to the trib…
128 wordsSECTION 546Numbers 34:14
Numbers 34:14 Ver. 14. For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the house of their fathers,.... That tribe, and all the families belonging to it: have received their inheritance, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance; that is, it was agreed they should have it on condition of thei…
981 wordsSECTION 547Numbers 35:1
Numbers 35:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 35 Though the tribe of Levi had no part in the division of the land, yet cities out of the several tribes are here ordered to be given them to dwell in, to the number of forty eight, Nu 35:1, six of which were to be cities of refuge, Nu 35:9, but not for wilful murderers, in whats…
282 wordsSECTION 548Numbers 35:2
Numbers 35:2 Ver. 2. Command the children of Israel,.... All the tribes of them; it is not a bare instruction that is given them, much less a mere request that is made to them, or something proposed, and left to their option whether they would agree to it or not; but it is strictly enjoined them by the Lord, who had g…
283 wordsSECTION 549Numbers 35:3
Numbers 35:3 Ver. 3. And cities shall they have to dwell in,.... For them and their families, and indeed for nothing else, they having no trades nor worldly business to carry on in them: and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle; for stables and stalls to put them up in, and for barns and storehouses to lay i…
133 wordsSECTION 550Numbers 35:4
Numbers 35:4 Ver. 4. And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites,.... The dimensions and bounds of them were not left to the Israelites, to give what ground they pleased for this purpose, but were fixed to what length they should be: these [shall reach] from the walls of the city, and outward, …
109 wordsSECTION 551Numbers 35:5
Numbers 35:5 Ver. 5. And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits,.... Before only 1000 cubits were ordered to be measured, and now 2000, even 2000 more, which were to be added to the other, and to begin where they ended. The first 1000 were for their cattle and goods, these 2000 fo…
323 wordsSECTION 552Numbers 35:6
Numbers 35:6 Ver. 6. And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites,.... The number of which is not yet expressed, but is afterwards: there shall be six cities for refuge; a sort of asylums, of which there were many among the Heathens, perhaps in imitation of these, for persons to have recourse to for safe…
812 wordsSECTION 553Numbers 35:7
Numbers 35:7 Ver. 7. So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty eight cities,.... Of these forty eight cities, their names, and what tribes they were in, and which of them were particularly cities of refuge, an account is given in Jos 21:10: them shall ye give, with their suburbs; according t…
64 wordsSECTION 554Numbers 35:8
Numbers 35:8 Ver. 8. And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel,.... What shall fall by lot for their inheritance, and they shall be possessed of; and though they are, shall not refuse, nor grudge to give them, according to the direction of God, whose the land is, they hold…
219 wordsSECTION 555Numbers 35:9
Numbers 35:9 Ver. 9. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, or he continued his speech unto him: saying: as follows.…
25 wordsSECTION 556Numbers 35:10
Numbers 35:10 Ver. 10. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Now, directly: when ye come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; as they quickly would, being now very near it, and of which there was the utmost certainty, since the Lord had promised to bring them over that river, and put them in posse…
63 wordsSECTION 557Numbers 35:11
Numbers 35:11 Ver. 11. Then ye shall appoint your cities to be cities of refuge for you,.... And, according to the Jewish writers {i}, these were neither to be made large nor little, but middling; and they appointed them where there were markets and fairs, at which goods were to be sold; and where there was plenty of …
179 wordsSECTION 558Numbers 35:12
Numbers 35:12 Ver. 12. And they shall be unto you cities of refuge from the avenger,.... Or near kinsman; for as the right of redemption of an estate that was mortgaged belonged to such an one, so of revenging the blood of any one that was killed: that the manslayer die not; by the hand of the avenger, who in the hea…
264 wordsSECTION 559Numbers 35:13
Numbers 35:13 Ver. 13. And of these cities which ye shall give,.... Of the forty eight cities they were to give to the Levites, Nu 35:7, six cities shall ye have for refuge; which, I think, makes it clear, that not all the forty eight cities were for refuge, only six of them.…
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Numbers 35:14 Ver. 14. Ye shall give three cites on this side Jordan,.... Which were Bezer in the wilderness, out of the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead, out of the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, out of the tribe of Manasseh, Jos 20:8, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan: which were Kadesh …
435 wordsSECTION 561Numbers 35:15
Numbers 35:15 Ver. 15. These six cities shall be a refuge both for the children of Israel and for the stranger,.... For an Israelite, and a proselyte of righteousness, one that embraced the Jewish religion, and in all things conformed to it, and to whom there was but one law in things civil and religious: and for the …
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Numbers 36:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 36 This chapter gives an account of an application made by the heads of the tribe of Manasseh, concerning the inheritances of the daughters of Zelophehad, which, should they marry into other tribes, would be removed thither, and so be a loss to theirs, Nu 36:1, which case was judg…
228 wordsSECTION 563Numbers 36:2
Numbers 36:2 Ver. 2. And they said,.... One in the name of the rest: the Lord commanded my lord; that is, Moses, whom they address in a very respectable manner, being the chief governor of the nation under God: to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; which command may be seen, in Nu 26:…
125 wordsSECTION 564Numbers 36:3
Numbers 36:3 Ver. 3. And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel,.... Which was not an unreasonable supposition, and perhaps was judged very probable and likely, if some method was not taken to prevent it; which they might conclude from the application of some young men of t…
263 wordsSECTION 565Numbers 36:4
Numbers 36:4 Ver. 4. And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be,.... At which time inheritances were to be restored to the original proprietors of them; yet this would be of no service in the present case, but rather the contrary, since it would fix the inheritances of these daughters in another tribe or …
214 wordsSECTION 566Numbers 36:5
Numbers 36:5 Ver. 5. And Moses commanded the children of Israel,.... Even all the tribes of Israel, whom the following law concerned, as well as the tribe of Manasseh: according to the word of the Lord; whom no doubt he consulted on this occasion, as he did when the daughters of Zelophehad applied unto him about the …
130 wordsSECTION 567Numbers 36:6
Numbers 36:6 Ver. 6. This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,.... Concerning this affair relative to them; the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases the words, "not for the generations that rise up after the division of the land, but for the daughters of Zelophehad;'' as if this…
205 wordsSECTION 568Numbers 36:7
Numbers 36:7 Ver. 7. So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe,.... Which shows that this concerns all the tribes of Israel, though yet not fully expressed, as it is afterwards: for everyone of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fat…
193 wordsSECTION 569Numbers 36:8
Numbers 36:8 Ver. 8. And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe if the children of Israel,.... For the same law which gave the daughters of Zelophehad right to their father's inheritance, gave every other daughter in Israel a right to inherit where there were no sons, Nu 27:8 and every such daughte…
130 wordsSECTION 570Numbers 36:9
Numbers 36:9 Ver. 9. Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another,.... Which was one end of the year of jubilee, but that did not sufficiently secure it without this law, as this case shows: but everyone of the tribes of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance; the chief view of which was, …
74 wordsSECTION 571Numbers 36:10
Numbers 36:10 Ver. 10. Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. They married into, the family of their father's tribe, according to the following account.…
31 wordsSECTION 572Numbers 36:11
Numbers 36:11 Ver. 11. For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah,.... The names of the daughters of Zelophehad, and the same as in Nu 26:33, only the order a little varied, Tirzah and Noah here changing places; there they are according to their birth, here they are according to their marriage, as Aben Ezra …
99 wordsSECTION 573Numbers 36:12
Numbers 36:12 Ver. 12. And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph,.... The family of the Hepherites, of which they were. Aben Ezra observes, that their being married into families, and not a family, is a sign that their uncles' sons were not all of them brethren, or the sons of …
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Numbers 36:13 Ver. 13. These are the commandments and the judgments,.... The judicial laws concerning the division of the land of Canaan, the case of inheritances in it, and the cities of refuge: which the Lord commanded by, the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho; …
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