PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Numbers
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 203,866 words · 574 reading sections
Numbers 10:11
Numbers 10:11 Ver. 11. And it came to pass, on the twentieth [day] of the second month, in the second year,.... Which was the twentieth of the month Ijar, in the second year of the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt; who, as it appears from hence, compared with Ex 19:1; had been in the wilderness of Sinai twelve mo…
174 wordsSECTION 182Numbers 10:12
Numbers 10:12 Ver. 12. And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai,.... Each of their camps removed from thence, and so everyone took their journey; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran; which was a signal for the camps to rest and pitch their tents; this was after they ha…
125 wordsSECTION 183Numbers 10:13
Numbers 10:13 Ver. 13. And they first took their journey, according to the commandment of the Lord,.... Which was virtually contained in and signified by the taking up of the cloud, see Nu 9:18; by the hand of Moses; by his means and ministry, who had informed them, that it was the will of God, that when they saw the…
76 wordsSECTION 184Numbers 10:14
Numbers 10:14 Ver. 14. In the first [place] went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah,.... Which tribe had the honour to go foremost and lead the van, the chief ruler, the Messiah being to come of it, as he did; who is King of Israel, and has gone forth at the head of them, fighting their battles for them…
157 wordsSECTION 185Numbers 10:15
Numbers 10:15 Ver. 15. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar [was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar. See Gill on "Nu 10:14".…
29 wordsSECTION 186Numbers 10:16
Numbers 10:16 Ver. 16. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the son of Helon. See Gill on "Nu 10:14".…
29 wordsSECTION 187Numbers 10:17
Numbers 10:17 Ver. 17. And the tabernacle was taken down,.... By the Levites, as Aben Ezra, and which appears to be their work, from Nu 1:51; this began to be done by them as soon as the cloud was perceived to move upwards, and the camp of Judah was preparing to march; and after Aaron and his sons had taken the holy v…
3,479 wordsSECTION 188Numbers 11:1
Numbers 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 11 This chapter informs us of the complaints of the people of Israel, which brought the fire of the Lord upon them, and consumed many of them; and which, at the intercession of Moses, was quenched, and the place from thence called Taberah, Nu 11:1; and of the lusting of the mixed …
784 wordsSECTION 189Numbers 11:2
Numbers 11:2 Ver. 2. And the people cried unto Moses,.... And entreated him to pray for them, being frightened at the fire which consumed many of them, lest it should spread and become general among them: and when Moses prayed unto the Lord; as he did, in which he was a type of Christ, the mediator between God and ma…
177 wordsSECTION 190Numbers 11:3
Numbers 11:3 Ver. 3. And he called the name of the place Taberah,.... That is, "burning": Moses called it so; or it may be rendered impersonally, it was called {s} so in later times by the people: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them; to perpetuate the, memory of this kind of punishment for their sins, that …
108 wordsSECTION 191Numbers 11:4
Numbers 11:4 Ver. 4. And the mixed multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting,.... These came out of Egypt with them, Ex 12:38; having either contracted affinity with them, or such intimacy of conversation, that they could not part, or being proselyted to the Jewish religion, at least in pretence; these were not o…
358 wordsSECTION 192Numbers 11:5
Numbers 11:5 Ver. 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely,.... Fish was food the Egyptians much lived upon; for though Herodotus says the priests might not taste of fish, the common people ate much; yea, he himself says that some lived upon nothing else but fish gutted and dried in the sun; and he obs…
701 wordsSECTION 193Numbers 11:6
Numbers 11:6 Ver. 6. But now our soul is dried away,.... Meaning their bodies, which, for want of flesh food, they pretended had no moisture in them, or they were half starved, and in wasting and consuming circumstances: [there is] nothing at all besides this manna [before] our eyes; which in itself was a truth and m…
301 wordsSECTION 194Numbers 11:7
Numbers 11:7 Ver. 7. And the manna [was] as coriander seed,.... Not in colour, for that is black or darkish, whereas the manna was white, as is generally observed; of which See Gill on "Ex 16:31"; however it might be like the coriander, because of its form and figure, being round, and because of its quantity, being sm…
270 wordsSECTION 195Numbers 11:8
Numbers 11:8 Ver. 8. [And] the people went about and gathered [it],.... Went about the camp on all sides, where it fell in plenty; this they did every morning, and this was all the trouble they were at; they had it for gathering, without any expense to them: and ground [it] in mills: in hand mills, as Aben Ezra; for …
221 wordsSECTION 196Numbers 11:9
Numbers 11:9 Ver. 9. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,.... As it usually, and even constantly did: the manna fell upon it; as constantly, and had thereby a clean place to fall on; and then another dew fell upon that, which kept it the cleaner still, and from any vermin creeping upon it; see Ex 16:14; …
132 wordsSECTION 197Numbers 11:10
Numbers 11:10 Ver. 10. Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,.... So general was their lusting after flesh, and their discontent for want of it; and so great their distress and uneasiness about it, that they wept and cried for it, and so loud and clamorous, that Moses heard the noise and outcry th…
6,827 wordsSECTION 198Numbers 12:1
Numbers 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBER 12 In this chapter we have an account of Aaron and Miriam speaking against Moses, and for what reason, whose amiable character is given, Nu 12:1; and of the Lord's calling them to him, and rebuking them for it, giving an excellent testimony to Moses, and then departing in anger, Nu…
672 wordsSECTION 199Numbers 12:2
Numbers 12:2 Ver. 2. And they said, hath the Lord, indeed spoken only by Moses?.... They own he had spoken by him; this was so notorious that it could not be denied: hath he not spoken also by us? are we not prophets as well as he? the Lord spake to Aaron while he was in Egypt, and had made him a good spokesman in hi…
164 wordsSECTION 200Numbers 12:3
Numbers 12:3 Ver. 3. Now the man Moses [was] very meek,.... So that they might say anything against him, and he not be affronted, nor resent any injury; and this therefore is introduced as a reason why the Lord undertook the cause, and vindicated him, resenting the obloquies of Miriam and Aaron against him; because he…
330 wordsSECTION 201Numbers 12:4
Numbers 12:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam,.... As one greatly provoked, and highly displeased, and which was shown at once; and in order to prevent the complaint getting among the people, and spreading, which might have been of bad consequence, as they were pretty muc…
205 wordsSECTION 202Numbers 12:5
Numbers 12:5 Ver. 5. The Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud,.... Which was over the most holy place of the tabernacle, and which was a symbol of the presence of the Lord; and who is said to come down, because that was above the tabernacle; whereas he came, as is next expressed, and stood [in] the door of the t…
161 wordsSECTION 203Numbers 12:6
Numbers 12:6 Ver. 6. And he said, hear now my words,.... The Targum of Jonathan reads, "I beseech you"; and Jarchi says, this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to the language of the divine Being: if there be a prophet among you; not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was, …
255 wordsSECTION 204Numbers 12:7
Numbers 12:7 Ver. 7. My servant Moses [is] not so,.... Or such a prophet; he is not so used; it was not in such a manner the Lord spake to him; not in visions and dreams, as he had to Abraham and Jacob, and did to others in later times: who [is] faithful in all mine house; in the house of Israel, or among that people…
157 wordsSECTION 205Numbers 12:8
Numbers 12:8 Ver. 8. With him will I speak mouth to mouth,.... And face to face, as he had done, Ex 33:11; in a free, friendly, and familiar manner, as one friend speaks to another, without injecting any fear or dread, and consternation of mind, which was sometimes the case of the prophets; or without a middle person,…
429 wordsSECTION 206Numbers 12:9
Numbers 12:9 Ver. 9. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them,.... Which might be visible by some outward token, as by lightning from the cloud, or, however, what follows was sufficient to show it: and he departed; from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, where he had stood in the pillar of clou…
108 wordsSECTION 207Numbers 12:10
Numbers 12:10 Ver. 10. And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle,.... Not from off the door of the tabernacle, as Aben Ezra, for that is implied in the last clause of Nu 12:9, but from off that part of the tabernacle, the most holy place, where it had used to abide; but now it went up higher in the air, or remove…
369 wordsSECTION 208Numbers 12:11
Numbers 12:11 Ver. 11. And Aaron said unto Moses, alas, my lord!.... The word for "alas" is generally interpreted by the Jewish writers as a note of beseeching and entreating, as it is here by the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, "I beseech thee, my lord,'' or "upon me, my lord" {k}, be all the blame; such was his t…
232 wordsSECTION 209Numbers 12:12
Numbers 12:12 Ver. 12. Let her not be as one dead,.... As she was in a ceremonial sense, being to be shut up and excluded from the society of people, and as defiling by touching as a dead carcase; and, in a natural sense, her flesh, by the disease upon her, was become as dead flesh, putrid and rotten, and unless mirac…
137 wordsSECTION 210Numbers 12:13
Numbers 12:13 Ver. 13. And Moses cried unto the Lord,.... With a loud voice, and with great earnestness and importunity, being heartily affected with the miserable condition Miriam was in: saying, heal her now, O God, I beseech thee; in the original text it is, "O God now, heal her now"; for the same particle is used…
162 wordsSECTION 211Numbers 12:14
Numbers 12:14 Ver. 14. And the Lord said unto Moses,.... By a voice out of the cloud, though at a distance; unless it was by a secret impulse upon his spirit, darting such words into his mind as if he heard an audible voice: if her father had but spit in her face; or, "in spitting spitted" {l}; spit much, and continu…
341 wordsSECTION 212Numbers 12:15
Numbers 12:15 Ver. 15. And Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days,.... And so in later times lepers dwelt alone, and in a separate house, as long as the leprosy was upon them, see 2Ch 26:21; Miriam no doubt was healed at once, but, as a punishment for her sin, she was obliged to keep out of the camp of Israel for …
126 wordsSECTION 213Numbers 12:16
Numbers 12:16 Ver. 16. And afterwards the people removed from Hazeroth,.... After seven days, where they had been so long at least; the cloud being returned to the tabernacle, and having been taken up, which was the signal for motion, the camps of Israel, in their order, removed and marched forward: and pitched in th…
222 wordsSECTION 214Numbers 13:1
Numbers 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 13 In this chapter an order is given by the Lord, to send twelve men into the land of Canaan, to search and spy it, and which was accordingly executed, Nu 13:1; and the names of the twelve persons are given, Nu 13:4; the instructions they received from Moses, what part of the land…
451 wordsSECTION 215Numbers 13:2
Numbers 13:2 Ver. 2. Send thou men,.... Which is rather a permission than a command; so Jarchi interprets it, "send men according to thy mind, I do not command thee, but if thou pleasest send;'' this he observed was agreeable to Moses, and to the Israelites, and therefore granted it, or allowed them to take their ow…
311 wordsSECTION 216Numbers 13:3
Numbers 13:3 Ver. 3. And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord,.... By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means: sent them from the wilderness of Paran; from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed…
105 wordsSECTION 217Numbers 13:4
Numbers 13:4 Ver. 4. And these [were] their names, of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. From Nu 13:4, there is nothing but the names of the said persons, whose sons they were, and of what tribe; and the several tribes are mentioned, not according to the order of the birth of the patriarchs, nor according…
154 wordsSECTION 218Numbers 13:5
Numbers 13:5 Ver. 5. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 219Numbers 13:6
Numbers 13:6 Ver. 6. Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 220Numbers 13:7
Numbers 13:7 Ver. 7. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 221Numbers 13:8
Numbers 13:8 Ver. 8. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 222Numbers 13:9
Numbers 13:9 Ver. 9. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 223Numbers 13:10
Numbers 13:10 Ver. 10. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 224Numbers 13:11
Numbers 13:11 Ver. 11. Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
27 wordsSECTION 225Numbers 13:12
Numbers 13:12 Ver. 12. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 226Numbers 13:13
Numbers 13:13 Ver. 13. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 227Numbers 13:14
Numbers 13:14 Ver. 14. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 228Numbers 13:15
Numbers 13:15 Ver. 15. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. See Gill on "Nu 13:4".…
21 wordsSECTION 229Numbers 13:16
Numbers 13:16 Ver. 16. These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land,.... Which is observed after the catalogue is given of them, Nu 13:4; and this is repeated that their names may be taken notice of, which stand on record to the disgrace of the greater number of them, and to the honour of two …
227 wordsSECTION 230Numbers 13:17
Numbers 13:17 Ver. 17. And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan,.... He sent them from Kadeshbarnea, as Caleb affirms, Jos 14:7; and said unto them, go ye up this [way] southward; pointing as it were with his finger which way they should go, even up such a hill southward; and which, as Aben Ezra observes, wa…
291 wordsSECTION 231Numbers 13:18
Numbers 13:18 Ver. 18. And see the land what it [is], and the people that dwelleth therein,.... The situation and condition of the country, and the nature, temper, disposition, and constitution of the inhabitants, by which it might be judged whether it was a desirable thing to possess it, and whether it was practicabl…
152 wordsSECTION 232Numbers 13:19
Numbers 13:19 Ver. 19. And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [be] good or bad,.... Whether the air is good, the climate temperate, and the earth well watered, and has good convenience of springs, fountains, and rivers, and so wholesome or healthful; or otherwise, which is the first thing they were dire…
222 wordsSECTION 233Numbers 13:20
Numbers 13:20 Ver. 20. And what the land [is], whether it be fat or lean,.... That is, what the soil of it is, whether it be rich and fertile, or whether it be poor and barren, which would be seen by the fruits it produced, this being now the fruitful season of the year; and so the Targum of Jonathan, "and what is th…
395 wordsSECTION 234Numbers 13:21
Numbers 13:21 Ver. 21. So they went up and searched the land,.... Went up the mountains as they were directed, and passed through the whole land; diligently inquired into everything material belonging to it, according to their instructions, and made their observations on it, and on the inhabitants, and their habitatio…
4,217 wordsSECTION 235Numbers 14:1
Numbers 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 14 This chapter treats or the murmurings of the children of Israel upon the evil report of the spies, which greatly distressed Moses and Aaron, Nu 14:1; and of the endeavours of Joshua and Caleb to quiet the minds of the people with a good account of the land, and of the easy conq…
356 wordsSECTION 236Numbers 14:2
Numbers 14:2 Ver. 2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron,.... They being the instruments of bringing them out of Egypt, and conducting them hither: and the whole congregation said unto them; some of them, the rest assenting to it by their cries and tears and gestures; would God w…
130 wordsSECTION 237Numbers 14:3
Numbers 14:3 Ver. 3. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land,.... Unto the borders of it: their murmuring did not cease at Moses and Aaron, the instruments, but proceeded against God himself, who had done such wonderful things for them, not only in bringing them out of Egypt, but since they had been in the w…
183 wordsSECTION 238Numbers 14:4
Numbers 14:4 Ver. 4. And they said one to another, let us make a captain,.... An head over them instead of Moses, who they knew would never take the government and care of them, should they resolve to return to Egypt as they proposed, and besides were now so disaffected to him, that they might not care he should. Capt…
352 wordsSECTION 239Numbers 14:5
Numbers 14:5 Ver. 5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces,.... Through shame and confusion of face for them, at hearing so shocking a proposal made, and such wretched ingratitude expressed; they blushed at it, and were in the utmost distress on account of it, and therefore threw themselves into this posture; or it…
131 wordsSECTION 240Numbers 14:6
Numbers 14:6 Ver. 6. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,.... Rose up and interposed in this affair, looking upon themselves under a special obligation so to do, as they were capable of confronting the other spies, and contradicting what they had said: [which were] of them that searched the land…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.