PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Numbers
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 203,866 words · 574 reading sections
Numbers 14:7
Numbers 14:7 Ver. 7. And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,.... To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them: saying, the land which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land; they observe that they were of the number of the spies that were appointed and sent to search…
187 wordsSECTION 242Numbers 14:8
Numbers 14:8 Ver. 8. If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see De 10:15; then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised, a land which floweth with milk and honey; as…
86 wordsSECTION 243Numbers 14:9
Numbers 14:9 Ver. 9. Only rebel not ye against the Lord,.... Nothing, it is suggested, could hinder them from the, possession of it but their rebellion against the Lord; which might provoke him to cut them off by his immediate hand, or to deliver them into the hands of their enemies; for rebellion is a dreadful sin, a…
343 wordsSECTION 244Numbers 14:10
Numbers 14:10 Ver. 10. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones,.... Namely, Joshua and Caleb, who had made such a faithful report of the good land, and had delivered such an animating and encouraging speech to the people. This is not to be understood of the body of the people, and of all the individuals t…
317 wordsSECTION 245Numbers 14:11
Numbers 14:11 Ver. 11. And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Out of the cloud upon the tabernacle: how long will this people provoke me? which suggests that they had often provoked him, and had done it long ago, and still continued to do so; and he had long bore their provocations; but it was not reasonable, nor could it…
211 wordsSECTION 246Numbers 14:12
Numbers 14:12 Ver. 12. I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the good land, Nu 14:37; with respect to the body of the people, this is to be considered not as a perem…
245 wordsSECTION 247Numbers 14:13
Numbers 14:13 Ver. 13. And Moses said unto the Lord,.... In an abrupt manner, as the following words show, his mind being greatly disturbed and distressed by the above threatening, then the Egyptians shall hear [it]; that the Lord had smitten the Israelites with the pestilence; the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of…
135 wordsSECTION 248Numbers 14:14
Numbers 14:14 Ver. 14. And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land,.... The land of Canaan, between which and Egypt there was an intercourse, though not by the way of the wilderness, being neighbours, and their original ancestors brethren, as Mizraim and Canaan were; or "they will say" {t}, and that with j…
311 wordsSECTION 249Numbers 14:15
Numbers 14:15 Ver. 15. Now [if] thou shall kill [all] this people, as one man,.... Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smitten at once, and as thought by the same disease, by the Angel of the Lord in the camp of the Assyrians, in later times, 2Ki 19:35;then the nations which ha…
5,774 wordsSECTION 250Numbers 15:1
Numbers 15:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 15 In this chapter the children of Israel are instructed about the meat offerings and drink offerings, and the quantities of them, which were always to go along with their burnt offerings and peace offerings they should offer when they came into the land of Canaan, Nu 15:1; and th…
246 wordsSECTION 251Numbers 15:2
Numbers 15:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... The younger sort of them, such as were under twenty years of age; for those of that age and upwards, who had murmured against the Lord, had been assured by him with an oath that they should die in the wilderness, and not see the land of Can…
135 wordsSECTION 252Numbers 15:3
Numbers 15:3 Ver. 3. And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering,.... The first of these respects such offerings by fire, which were not wholly burnt, but part of them were eaten by the priests, De 18:1; and the latter such as were wholly burnt, unless the latter can be thought to be only an expl…
181 wordsSECTION 253Numbers 15:4
Numbers 15:4 Ver. 4. Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the Lord,.... Be it of either kind before mentioned: bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour, mingled with the fourth [part] of an hin of oil; this was made of the tenth part of an ephah, or of an omer of fine wheaten flour, which was the quant…
105 wordsSECTION 254Numbers 15:5
Numbers 15:5 Ver. 5. And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine,.... The same measure with the oil, and this was wine of the grapes, as the Targum of Jonathan; other sorts of wine might not be used for the purpose mentioned: for a drink offering shalt thou prepare; with the meat offering, to go along with every burnt of…
124 wordsSECTION 255Numbers 15:6
Numbers 15:6 Ver. 6. Or for a ram,.... Whether for a burnt offering or a peace offering; or rather and for a ram {g}, as many versions: thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an hin of oil: which was the quantity of six quarts of fine flour, and about three …
90 wordsSECTION 256Numbers 15:7
Numbers 15:7 Ver. 7. And for a drink offering thou shalt offer a third [part] of an hin of wine,.... The same quantity of wine was to be used in the drink offering as of oil in the meat offering, Nu 15:4: [for] a sweet savour unto the Lord, that it might be acceptable to him.…
58 wordsSECTION 257Numbers 15:8
Numbers 15:8 Ver. 8. And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt offering,.... Which was a larger offering, and required a larger meat offering and drink offering, as Nu 15:9 show: or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow or peace offerings unto the Lord; by which latter are meant freewill offerings; for though b…
71 wordsSECTION 258Numbers 15:9
Numbers 15:9 Ver. 9. Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering,.... Much larger than either for a lamb or ram, even one consisting of three tenth deals of flour; or nine quarts of it: mingled with half an hin of oil; two quarts and a pint, and somewhat more.…
53 wordsSECTION 259Numbers 15:10
Numbers 15:10 Ver. 10. And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,.... The same quantity as of oil, and a little more: [for] an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord: this, according to Jarchi, refers only to the meat offering and the oil: for the wine was not a fire offering, not b…
68 wordsSECTION 260Numbers 15:11
Numbers 15:11 Ver. 11. Thus shall it be done for one bullock,.... Such a quantity of flour and oil for the meat offering, and such a quantity of wine for the drink offering as before expressed; making no difference between one young or old: or for a ram: which, Jarchi says, was thirteen months and one day old: or fo…
100 wordsSECTION 261Numbers 15:12
Numbers 15:12 Ver. 12. According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to everyone, according to their number. That is, in proportion to the number of the cattle, be they of which sort they would, should be the quantity of the meat and drink offerings.…
50 wordsSECTION 262Numbers 15:13
Numbers 15:13 Ver. 13. All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner,.... Meaning that all Israelites should with their sacrifices bring their meat and drink offerings of the quantity directed to as above: in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord; when they offer…
176 wordsSECTION 263Numbers 15:14
Numbers 15:14 Ver. 14. And if a stranger sojourn with you,.... A stranger, or proselyte, not of the gate, but of righteousness, as Ben Gersom and the Jewish, writers in general interpret it; or whatsoever [be] among you in your generations; whether such a proselyte settled and continued among them, or only stayed wit…
118 wordsSECTION 264Numbers 15:15
Numbers 15:15 Ver. 15. One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the congregation,.... Or "O congregation" {i}, as Ben Melech, and so the Targum of Jonathan, "O whole congregation"; though Aben Ezra denies it to be vocative: and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with you]; the same ordinance, statute, or appointm…
161 wordsSECTION 265Numbers 15:16
Numbers 15:16 Ver. 16. One law, and one manner,.... One law respecting these sacrifices, and one manner of offering them; one and the same precept to be observed, and one and the same judgment or punishment inflicted in case of non-observance: shall be for you, and the stranger that sojourneth with you; for Israelite…
108 wordsSECTION 266Numbers 15:17
Numbers 15:17 Ver. 17. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Or continued to speak to him; for the following law was given at the same time as those before: saying; as follows.…
33 wordsSECTION 267Numbers 15:18
Numbers 15:18 Ver. 18. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Who only were bound to observe the following law concerning the cake of the first dough, Nu 15:20, and not Gentiles; so the Jews say {k}, the dough of a Gentile is free from the cake, though an Israelite kneads it:when ye come into the la…
4,429 wordsSECTION 268Numbers 16:1
Numbers 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 16 This chapter gives an account of a sedition of Korah and others against Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:1, with whom Moses expostulates, and shows the unreasonableness of their clamour against Aaron, Nu 16:5; sends for Dathan and Abiram, who were in the confederacy, but refused to come,…
708 wordsSECTION 269Numbers 16:2
Numbers 16:2 Ver. 2. And they rose up before Moses,.... To his face, openly and publicly, in a bold and audacious manner; with impudence, as the Targum of Jonathan: with certain of the children of Israel; some out of the several tribes, but perhaps chiefly of the tribe of Reuben, as Jarchi: two hundred and fifty pri…
211 wordsSECTION 270Numbers 16:3
Numbers 16:3 Ver. 3. And they gathered themselves together against Moses, and against Aaron,.... They met together by appointment, and went up in a body to Moses and Aaron: and said unto them, [ye take] too much upon you; the one to be king, and the other to be priest; for they imagined that Moses took the civil gove…
531 wordsSECTION 271Numbers 16:4
Numbers 16:4 Ver. 4. And when Moses heard [it],.... What they said, their complaint against him, for setting up Aaron for an high priest, and against Aaron for taking this honour to himself: he fell upon his face; through shame, as the Targum of Jonathan, blushing at their sin, in opposing the ordinance of God; and t…
113 wordsSECTION 272Numbers 16:5
Numbers 16:5 Ver. 5. And he spake unto Korah, and unto all his company,.... The two hundred fifty princes that were with him; what follows was said to them apart from Dathan and Abiram, who seem not to be present at this time; and this was after Moses had finished his prayer to God, and had received instructions from …
260 wordsSECTION 273Numbers 16:6
Numbers 16:6 Ver. 6. This do, take you censers,.... Vessels to put incense in to offer, which was the business of the priests: Korah, and all his company; the two hundred fifty princes that were with him, for so many we read took censers, and offered incense, Nu 16:18.…
51 wordsSECTION 274Numbers 16:7
Numbers 16:7 Ver. 7. And put fire therein,.... Into the censers: and put incense in them; on the coals of fire in the censers: before the Lord; not at the altar of incense in the holy place, into which none but Aaron and his sons might come, but at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, where the glory of t…
430 wordsSECTION 275Numbers 16:8
Numbers 16:8 Ver. 8. And Moses said unto Korah,.... Continued his discourse to him, as the head of the conspiracy, and the ringleader of it: hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi; to whom also he had been before speaking; though Aben Ezra thinks the first speech was made to Korah and his company, and what follows to the …
62 wordsSECTION 276Numbers 16:9
Numbers 16:9 Ver. 9. [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you,.... It should not; for it was a great thing which the Lord had done for them, and with which they should have been satisfied, and for it thankful: that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel: this was a special favour, and oug…
241 wordsSECTION 277Numbers 16:10
Numbers 16:10 Ver. 10. And he hath brought thee near [to him],.... To be in his courts, to watch in his house, and wait on his priests, for which an ample provision was made by tithes. Korah is there personally addressed: and all thy brethren, the sons of Levi, with thee; the whole tribe of them, excepting Aaron and …
119 wordsSECTION 278Numbers 16:11
Numbers 16:11 Ver. 11. For which cause, both [thou] and all thy company [are] gathered together against the Lord,.... For gathering together against his ministers, whom he had put into office to act under him, and endeavouring to overturn a constitution of his erecting, and resisting and not submitting to an ordinance…
156 wordsSECTION 279Numbers 16:12
Numbers 16:12 Ver. 12. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,.... He sent messengers to call them to the house of judgment, as the Targum of Jonathan, to the court of judicature, where the Jews suppose Moses, with the seventy elders, were now sitting: it seems these two men departed either before…
195 wordsSECTION 280Numbers 16:13
Numbers 16:13 Ver. 13. [Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey?.... Meaning Egypt, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which, though a plentiful country, never had, nor deserved to have this epithet given it, which is peculiar to the land of Canaan, and is …
373 wordsSECTION 281Numbers 16:14
Numbers 16:14 Ver. 14. Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey,.... Meaning the land of Canaan; but this was no fault of Moses, he had brought them to the borders of it, he had bid them go up and possess it; but they refused, and chose to have spies first sent into it, who broug…
7,318 wordsSECTION 282Numbers 17:1
Numbers 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 17 In this chapter the priesthood of Aaron is further confirmed and established by the budding and blossom of his rod, as it lay among the princes of the several tribes, when theirs did not, Nu 17:1; which rod of Aaron was ordered to be laid up before the ark, as a token against t…
132 wordsSECTION 283Numbers 17:2
Numbers 17:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... The principal men among them of the several tribes: and take of everyone of them; not of every individual of the people of Israel, but of their princes, as afterwards explained: a rod, according to the house of [their] fathers; or "father", of whom their ho…
319 wordsSECTION 284Numbers 17:3
Numbers 17:3 Ver. 3. And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi,.... Or upon the rod that was for the tribe of Levi; the name of "Aaron" was to be written, not the word "Levi", or a "Levite", as Josephus {e}; for that would not have decided the controversy about the priesthood, which chiefly lay between th…
163 wordsSECTION 285Numbers 17:4
Numbers 17:4 Ver. 4. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation,.... In the most holy place: before the testimony; that is, the ark in which the testimony or the law was; here they were laid as in the presence of God, who was in a miraculous way to decide the controversy by them, and put an end …
214 wordsSECTION 286Numbers 17:5
Numbers 17:5 Ver. 5. And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod whom I shall choose,.... Or make it manifest that he had chosen him, and so confirm the choice he had made of him and his family, for the priesthood to be and continue in: shall blossom; bud and blossom, and yield fruit, as it afterwards did, which is…
178 wordsSECTION 287Numbers 17:6
Numbers 17:6 Ver. 6. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel,.... What the Lord had bid him say unto them concerning the rods, which they hearkened unto and observed: and everyone of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one; every prince of the several tribes, and so a rod for every tribe, as well…
249 wordsSECTION 288Numbers 17:7
Numbers 17:7 Ver. 7. And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. In that part of the tabernacle where the testimony or witness was, that is, the law, which was in the ark, over which was the mercy seat, with the cherubim between which Jehovah dwelt, and this was the most holy place; and th…
105 wordsSECTION 289Numbers 17:8
Numbers 17:8 Ver. 8. And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness,.... Where none but he could go at any time; this was the day after the rods had been placed there: and, behold, the rod of Aaron, for the house of Levi; the rod that had Aaron's name upon it, which was to represent…
725 wordsSECTION 290Numbers 17:9
Numbers 17:9 Ver. 9. And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord, unto all the children of Israel,.... He brought them out of the holy place, and showed them to the princes of the several tribes: and they looked, and took every man his rod; which they knew by their names upon them; by their own handwritin…
101 wordsSECTION 291Numbers 17:10
Numbers 17:10 Ver. 10. And the Lord said unto Moses,.... After the rods had been viewed, and every prince took his rod, and full satisfaction was given that the priesthood belonged to Aaron, by the budding and blossoming of his rod, when the rest remained as they were: bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony; be…
414 wordsSECTION 292Numbers 17:11
Numbers 17:11 Ver. 11. And Moses did so; as the Lord commanded him, even so did he. Took Aaron's rod, and laid it up before the ark for the purpose mentioned, being a faithful servant to God in all his house.…
42 wordsSECTION 293Numbers 17:12
Numbers 17:12 Ver. 12. And the children of Israel spake unto Moses,.... The princes of the tribes, who had seen the miracle of the rod, and knew that it was laid up in the most holy place, and for what purpose, which gave them a sensible concern: these, and as many as were acquainted with it, addressed Moses upon it, …
174 wordsSECTION 294Numbers 17:13
Numbers 17:13 Ver. 13. Whosoever cometh anything near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die,.... They who before were so bold and daring as to think the priesthood was common to them with Aaron, or they had as good a right to it, and might go into the sanctuary of the Lord where he did, are now so frightened at th…
168 wordsSECTION 295Numbers 18:1
Numbers 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 18 This chapter gives an account of the distinct work and service of the priests and Levites, Nu 18:1; and of several things given to the priests for their maintenance, Nu 18:8; and of the tithes the Levites should have to live upon, since they were to have no inheritance in the l…
330 wordsSECTION 296Numbers 18:2
Numbers 18:2 Ver. 2. And to thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father,.... For his father Amram was of that tribe, and so the Levites were his brethren, as he is directed to consider them; which might serve to conciliate their minds, and make them easy with respect to his enjoyment of the priesth…
227 wordsSECTION 297Numbers 18:3
Numbers 18:3 Ver. 3. And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle,.... That is, the Levites, whatever Aaron and his sons, the priests, should charge them to do, or commit to their care and charge, that they should observe; as to watch and keep out all unfit persons, to take down and set up the …
164 wordsSECTION 298Numbers 18:4
Numbers 18:4 Ver. 4. And they shall be joined unto thee,.... As assistants in the sacred service: and keep the charge of tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle; See Gill on "Nu 3:7" and See Gill on "Nu 3:8"; and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you; not any of the other tribes, only…
118 wordsSECTION 299Numbers 18:5
Numbers 18:5 Ver. 5. And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary,.... That is, the priests, Aaron and his sons; the high priest was to keep the charge of the most holy place particularly, and do what was to be done in that on the day of atonement; and the common priests to keep the charge of the holy place, and do e…
125 wordsSECTION 300Numbers 18:6
Numbers 18:6 Ver. 6. And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites, from among the children of Israel,.... See Gill on "Nu 3:12"; where the same is said, only they, are here called the brethren of the priests for the reason given, Nu 18:2; to you [they are] given [as] a gift for the Lord, to do the service of…
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