‏ Numbers 11:17-30

I will come Num 11:25, Num 12:5; Gen 11:5, Gen 18:21; Exod 19:11, Exod 19:20, Exod 34:5; John 3:13

talk with Num 12:8; Gen 17:3, Gen 17:22, Gen 18:20-22, Gen 18:33

I will take Num 27:18; 1Sam 10:6; 2Kgs 2:9, 2Kgs 2:15; Neh 9:20; Isa 44:3, Isa 59:20-21; Joel 2:28; John 7:39; Rom 8:9; 1Cor 2:12, 1Cor 12:4-11; 1Thess 4:8; 1Pet 1:22; Jude 1:19

they shall Exod 18:22; Acts 6:3-4

Sanctify Gen 35:2; Exod 19:10, Exod 19:15; Josh 7:13

ye have wept Num 11:1, Num 11:4-6; Exod 16:3-7; Judg 21:2

it was well Num 11:4-5, Num 14:2-3; Acts 7:39

About a year before this, the people had been thus feasted for one day (Exod 16:13); but now such plenty was to be afforded them for a whole month, and they should use it so greedily, that at last they should entirely loathe the food for which they had so inordinately craved.

whole month Heb. month of days, Exod 16:8, Exod 16:13

and it Num 21:5; Ps 78:27-30, Ps 106:15; Prov 27:7

despised 1Sam 2:30; 2Sam 12:10; Mal 1:6; Acts 13:41; 1Thess 4:8

Num 1:46, Num 2:32; Gen 12:2; Exod 12:37, Exod 38:26

There is certainly a considerable measure of weakness and unbelief manifested in these complaints and questions of Moses; but his conduct appears at the same time so very simple, honest, and affectionate, that we cannot but admire it, while we wonder that he had not stronger confidence in that God, whose stupendous miracles he had so often witnessed in Egypt.

2Kgs 7:2; Matt 15:33; Mark 6:37, Mark 8:4; Luke 1:18, Luke 1:34; John 6:6-7, John 6:9

Is the Lord's That is, "Is the power of the Lord diminished?" That power which has been so signally displayed on your behalf, and which is as unchangeable as it is unlimited. Gen 18:14; Ps 78:41; Isa 50:2, Isa 59:1; Mic 2:7; Matt 19:26; Luke 1:37

thou shalt Num 23:19; 2Kgs 7:2, 2Kgs 7:17-19; Jer 44:28-29; Ezek 12:25, Ezek 24:14; Matt 24:35

gathered Num 11:16, Num 11:26

came down Num 11:17, Num 12:5; Exod 34:5, Exod 40:38; Ps 99:7; Luke 9:34-35

took Num 11:17; 2Kgs 2:15; Jas 1:17

gave it From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre.

they prophesied By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God. 1Sam 10:5-6, 1Sam 10:10, 1Sam 19:20-24; Jer 36:5-6; Joel 2:28-29; Acts 2:17-18; Acts 11:28, Acts 21:9-11; 1Cor 11:4-5, 1Cor 14:1-3, 1Cor 14:32; 2Pet 1:21

went not out Exod 3:11, Exod 4:13-14; 1Sam 10:22, 1Sam 20:26; Jer 1:6, Jer 36:5

Joshua Exod 17:9

My Lord Mark 9:38-39; Luke 9:49-50; John 3:26

Enviest 1Cor 3:3, 1Cor 3:21, 1Cor 13:4; Phil 2:3; Jas 3:14-15, Jas 4:5, Jas 5:9; 1Pet 2:1

would Acts 26:29; 1Cor 14:5; Phil 1:15-18

that the Matt 9:37-38; Luke 10:2

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