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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 203

Numbers 12:6

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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, and that there were others besides Moses, as even they themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there were in later times:

[I] the Lord will make myself known to him; that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or things to come:

in a vision; when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to Jeremiah, Jer 1:11; the visions of the chariots, Eze 23:24, and dry bones, Eze 37:1, to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, Am 7:1: or to the mind by night, as if really discerned by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, Zec 1:8, and of the four horns, Zec 1:18, and four carpenters, Zec 1:20, with several others shown to Zechariah:

[and] will speak unto him in a dream; as he had done to Jacob, Ge 31:11, and as he did afterwards to Daniel, Da 7:1, and many others.

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