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:d by the fleſh you defire an ; | fivel from the wia:h-of Gol. Sandifying is oft uſed for preparing, as Jer: 6. 4. and 12.3-and 51. 28. # Not ſecretly in your cloſets, but openly and impudent!y 1n the doors of your tents, wer: 10. calling Heavenand earth to witneſs your cries and complaints.
19 Ye ſhall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ren Cays, nor twenty days :
20 But even a | whole moneth, untill it come out at your noſtrils &, and it be loathſome unto you /; becauſe ye have deſpiſed the LORD #» which 15 among you »,
+ Heb. moneth of days.
eat, ver: 33, 34. your ſouls may be |
| FJ $ :, RE 51 B E R S. BEE 26 Butthere remained two of #he men in the camp z, the name of the one 2vas Eldad, & the name of the other Medad: and the ſpirit reſted upon them (and they were of them that were written «, but went not out unto the tabernacle) and they propheſied in the camp. PE 2 Not going to the Tabernacle, as the reſt did, either modeſtly declining that high employment from a humble ſenſe of their own inſufficiency, as Saul did, 1 Sam: 10, 22. or not having ſufficient or ſeaſonable notice to repair thither : Or, being detained in the camp,
and in their dwellings, » hether by uncleannefs,or ſickneſs, or ſome urgent occaſion, not without God's ſp«:cial providence, that ſo the '
2nd have wept before him, ſaying, Why came we forth out of Egypt 0?
*k Whick 0 loathed and violently vomited up frequently doth. 1 Being glutted with the abundance of ir. Thus God deſtroys them by granting their deſires, and turns even their bleſſings intro he alſo fell into the ſame fin with the people, 7. e. impatience and ſons and perſons, and between Moſes his fins of infirmity, and the peoples preſumpruous and cft repeated provocations. 7 (7. e.) You
and other things, and have preferred the leeks, onions, ©: of Egypt before them all: You have {lighted and diſtruſted his promiſes and providence after ſo long and large experience of it. » Who is preſent and reſident with you to obſerve all your carriages, and to punith your offences. This is added as a g:eat aggravation of the crime,” to ſin in the prefence of the Judge. o Why did God do us ſuch an injury ? Why did we ſo foolitbly follow and obey him in coming forth? | 2: And Moſes faid, * The people amongſt whom I am,are ſix hundred thouſand footmen p, & thou haſt ſaid, * ] will give them fleſh that they may eat a whole month. p Fit for war, Exod: 12.37. befides women, children, &'c: Thar Moſes ſpeaks this as doubting or diſtruſting God's words, is evident enough from wer: 22, 23. And that Moſes was not remarkably pu- | niſh:d for this as he was afterward for the ſame fin, Numb: 20.next | to God's good pleaſure may be imputed to the different circum- | ſtances of this and that ſin . This was the firſt great offence of this kind, and therefore more eaſily paſſed by, that was after warning and againſt more light and experience. This ſeems to have been ſpoken ſecretly in Moſes his br att; That openly and publickly be- fore the people, and to their ſcandal, and therefore it was fit ro be openly & ſeverely puniſhed to prevent the contagion of that examyle. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be ſlain for them, to ſuffice them q, or ſhall all the fiſh of the fea be gather-
ed together for them to ſuffice chem ? q Will they be ſufficient for them? or where ſhall they have
? | "M0 And the LORD ſaid unto Moſes, *Is the LORDS hand waxed ſhorty? thou ſhalt ſee now whether my
word ſhall come to paſs unto thee, or not.
y (5. e.) Leſs able to work ſuch great and glorious miracles as I have done.
24 And Moſes went outs and told the people the
words of the LORD, and gathered the feventy men
*Iſa: 50.2. & 59. 1,
the tabernacle «.
s Out of the tabernacle into which he entered to receive God's anſwers from the Mercy-ſeat, Numb: 7. 89. #t Either they are cal- led ſeventy from the ſtated number, though two of rhem w-:e lack- ing, ver: 26. as the Apoſtle. aie clled the twelve, Mat: 26. 20. when one of that number was abſ:nt: Or, he is ſaid to h:ve gathered them, when he gave command to gather them. « Partly thar the awe of God might be imprinted upon thei- hearts, that they mighr more ſeriouſly undertake, and more faithfully manage their high employment, partly to gain them the more author'ty and reſpe& from the people, and principally, becauſe that was the place where God martifeted himſelf, and gave his bleſſings, and therefore there he would beſtow his ſpirit upon them.
25 And the L*)RD came down in a cloud, and ſpake unto him, and took of the ſpiric that was upon him, and gave it unto the ſeventy eideis; and it came to paſs, that when the. ſpirit reſted upon them x, they prephe-
fGr: ada. fied y, and Þ did not ceaſe ||.
ed, or pro= & (z.e.) Not ny moved them for a time, but took up his ſettled
ceeded uw abode with them, becauſe the uſe and end of this gitt was not tem-
further, porary but perpetual. y (7. e.) Diſc urſe! ot the wo'd and wo: ks of God in a ſingular and marvellous manner, as the Prophets did. So this word is uſed, 1 Sam: 10. 5, 6. Foel 2. 28. Aiffts 2. 17. 1 Cor: 14- 3- Yet were they not hereby conſtituted Prophers or Teachers, but civil Magiſtrates and Rulers, who rogether with the ſpirit of government, which is here ſufficiently implied,received allo the ſpirit