SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:35
Y fue, que al mover el arca, Moisés decía: Levántate, oh SEÑOR, y sean disipados tus enemigos, y huyan delante de tu rostro los que te aborrecen.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:35
Verse 35. Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered] If God did not arise in this way and scatter his enemies, there could be no hope that Israel could get safely through the wilderness. God must go first, if Israel would wish to follow in safety.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 35. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward , etc.] Carried by the Kohathites, ( Numbers 10:21); that Moses said ; in prayer, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem express it; and it was a prayer of faith, and prophetic of what would be done, and might serve greatly to encourage and animate the children of Israel in their journeys; for the following prayer was put up not only at this time, but at all times when the ark set forward; and so Ben Gersom says, it was the custom of Moses, at whatsoever time the ark was moved, to pray as follows: rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered ; the Jerusalem Targum is, “rise up now, O Word of the Lord;” and the Targum of Jonathan, “be revealed now, O Word of the Lord;” the essential Word of God, the Messiah, to whom these words may be applied; either to his incarnation and manifestation in the flesh, his end in, which was to destroy all his and his people’s enemies, particularly the devil and his works, ( Hebrews 2:14,15 1 John 3:8); or to his resurrection from the dead, these words standing at the head of a prophecy of his ascension to heaven, which supposes his resurrection from the dead, ( Psalm 68:1,18); at the death of Christ all the spiritual enemies of his people were defeated, scattered, confounded, and conquered; Satan and his principalities were spoiled, sin was made an end of, death was abolished, and the world overcome; at his resurrection the keepers of the sepulchre fled; and after his ascension wrath came upon the Jewish nation, those enemies of his, that would not have him to rule over them, and they were scattered about on the face of the whole earth, as they are to this day: and let them that hate thee flee before thee ; the same petition expressed in different words, but to the same sense; enemies, and those that hate the Lord, are the same, as their defeat, conclusion, and destruction, are signified by their flight and dispersion; and it may be observed, that those who were the enemies and haters of Israel were reckoned the enemies and haters of God himself; as the enemies of Christ’s people, and those that hate them, are accounted Christ’s enemies, and such that hate him. Perhaps Moses may have a special respect to the Canaanites, whose land was promised unto Israel, and they were going to dispossess them of it, in order to inherit it, and Moses might expect it would be quickly done, at the end of these three days; which brought them to the wilderness of Paran, so near the good land that they sent from thence spies into it, and in all probability they would have then entered the possession of it, had it not been for their complaints and murmurs, and the ill report brought on the good land, on which account they were stopped thirty eight years in the wilderness.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 33-36 - Their going out and coming in, gives an example to us to begin and en every day's journey and every day's work with prayer. Here is Moses' prayer when the ark set forward, "Rise up, and let thine enemies be scattered." There are those in the world who are enemies to God an haters of him; secret and open enemies; enemies to his truths, his laws, his ordinances, his people. But for the scattering and defeatin of God's enemies, there needs no more than God's arising. Observe als the prayer of Moses when the ark rested, that God would cause his people to rest. The welfare and happiness of the Israel of God, consis in the continual presence of God among them. Their safety is not in their numbers, but in the favour of God, and his gracious return to them, and resting with them. Upon this account, Happy art thou, Israel! who is like unto thee, O people! God will go before them, to find them resting-places by the way. His promise is, and their prayer are, that he will never leave them nor forsake them __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 בנסע 5265 הארן 727 ויאמר 559 משׁה 4872 קומה 6965 יהוה 3068 ויפצו 6327 איביך 341 וינסו 5127 משׂנאיך 8130 מפניך׃ 6440
