them to the Brother : and if there be none, to the next kinſman, x —=1 7 FE *& God Commands Moſes to go [4 into a Mountain to view the land of Canaan, nag wi we {aid unto Moſes, Get hee UP * Deut:z and die there : The Reaſon, 12 — 14. Moſes prays to the Lord to appoint ; —— arim _ and fee the land which I 27: and an able Succeſſor, 1517. Joſhua choſe, and confirm'd in his Office by have g1Ven unto the children of Krael. 32: 49; Impoſition of hands before all the People, 18 23. m The whole tra& of mountains was called Abarim, Numb: 33: 47: whereof one of the higheſt was called Nebo, Der: 32+49. and the *Chap:26: Hen came the daughters of * Zelophehad #, the ſon | *9P of that Piſgah, Deur: 34: 1. 33: & 36; of Hepher, the ſon of Gilead, the fon of Machir, 13 And when thou haft ſeen it, thou alſo ſhalt be 11. Joſh. the ſon of Manaſſeh, of the families of Manaſleh, the gathered unto thy people #, as * Aaron thy brother *Chapas 17:3: fon of Joſeph; andtheſe are the names ofhis daughters ; | Ws gathered. 24: & Mahlah, Noah and Hoglzh, and Milcah, and Tirzah. n rg okay Phraſe ſee Gen: 15: 15: and 25: 8. ES OTE # Perceiving that the males only were numbred, and that the land 6s. Soy ye rebelled againſt my commandment ( in , ay” I.& was to be divided to them only, they put in their claim for a ſhare | tÞ© deſer t of Zin, inthe ſtrife of rhe Congregation ) to + Chap: WE. in their fathers inheritance. ſan&tifie me at the water, before their eyes : that is the 2: 24: | Mal. 2 And they ſtood before Moſes, and before Eleazar | * water of Meribah in Kadeih,s in the wilderneſs of Zin, Deut: | 2. the prieſt, and before the Princes, and all the COnNgre- o This 1s added, ro diſtinguifh this miſcarriage of Moſes from that 1:,37* Tek gation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation | of the people in Rephidim, Exod: 17: 7. Te OO b, ſaying, 15 And Moſes ſpake unto the LORD p, ſaying, ea } reft þ Nigh unto which it ſeems was the place where Moſes and the p The words here following, and others too, which are recorded, j go : chief rulers aſſembled for the adminiſtration of publick affairs. | 24 3+ 23» 26. * Chap: |
which alſo was very cenvenient, becauſe rhey had fr:queat occaſion 7 TT * . : OE of recourſe to God for his affiſtance and direction beta. 16 Let the LORD * God of the ſpir its of all fieſh 7» 5 2
puny 6 3 Our father * died in the wildernels, and he was not m_ of ay bog the congregation 2 is X ; 3s: i Re tb Be Þ : The LeAarcner OF Ipirits, Fat Cit Whit 64, 65: inthe company of them that gathered themſelyes toge- | is fit for this great emgloymenc ; the Father and Ge van
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the congregation «,and give him a charge x in their ſight.
made by fire b for a } {weet favour unto me, ſhall ye ' the burnt-offering of every month throughout che
! months & of the vear.
7. e, my offering or ſacrifices, and wy bread, j, e. cither my fhew | 'Y Lo
who canſt raiſe and ſuit the ſpirits of men to the
nour of ſpirits | TY has as thou did{t thote Numb: 11. 26, 17.
h gheit and hardeſt works, See Numb: 16: 22, :
17 Which may go out before them, and which may ! g0 in before them 7, and which may lead them out,and : which may bring them in ; that the congregation ot ; the LORD be not * as ſheep which have no ſhepherd. ;
ry (4. e: ) Which may wiſely condutt them in all their affairs, '
'9: hats when they go forth to war, os upon other occaſions, and ;
when they return home and live in peace. A metaphor from ſhepherd-, a5 it here follows, which in thoſe places ufed not to go * behind their ſheep, as ours now do, but before them, and to lead ; them forth to their paſture, and in due time to lead them home again. Of this phraſe ſee Deut: 28: 6. AF. 1. 21.
- And the LORD faid unto Moſes, Take thee Joſhua,
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the ſon of Nun, a man in whom zs thee {piric 5,and ay hine hand upon him 7 ; t ” —_ ſpirit - government, of wiſdom, and of the fear of the Lord, &c. t By waich ceremony Moſes did both deſign the pe:ſon and confer the power,and by his prayers, which accompanied that rite, obtain from God all the ſpiritual gifts and graces neceſſary for his future employment, as appears from Dewr. 34: 9. See of
this cuſtom Gen: 48: 14. Levit: 1: 4: Numb; 8: 10.1 Tim: 4: 14. :9 Andiec him before Eleazar the prielt, & before all
« That they may be witneſſes of the whole action, and may __ knowledge him for their ſupream ruler. Thou ſhalt ira him in my name to undertake the government of my people, which otherwiſe he will be afraid and unwilling to do, and thou ſhalr give kim counſels and inſtructions for the right management
of that great truſt. ; 20 Sd chou ſhalt pat ſome of thine | honour upon
him y.that all the congregation of the children of Iſrael
may be obedient. ; Thou {halt not now uſe him as a ſervant, as thou haſt done”
bit as a brother and thy partner in the government, ſhewing re- ſpeC& ro him, and cauſing others to do ſo, and thou ſhalt impart to him the enſigns and evidences of thy own authority,whatſoever they be. Some underſtand this honour of thoſe ſpiritual endow- ments which did adorn Moſes, which Moſes was now to confer upon
him. Bur this 7Joſbua had before, for in him was the Joirit, wer: 18:
and he received a further meaſure of the ſpirit by Moſes his laying
on of hands, from both which ti11s honour 1S diſtinguiſhed, and had he mcanr this,he would not ave expreſled 1t 1n ſo dark and doubt- ful a phraſe, but have called it a purting not of honour, but of the ſoirit, uponrhim, as it is called, Numb; 11: 17. And ſeing the word honow heremay very well be properly underſtood, why ſhould we run to figurative ſignifications ?
21 And he ihall ſtand before Eleazar the prieſt, who ſhall ask counſel for him z, *after the judgment || of Urim + before the LORD *: at his word || ſhall they go out, and at his word they ſhall come in, 6:5 he and all the
children of Iſrael with him, even all the congregation.