TSK - NUMBERS 17

  1  Aaron,s rod, among all the rods of the tribes, only
    flourishes.
10  It is left for a monument against the rebels.


VERSE 1
   * :1


VERSE 2 
 - a rod.
  The word {matteh} signifies a staff, or sceptre, which the
  prince or chief of each tribe bore, and which was the sign of
  office or royalty among almost all the people of the earth.

- all their princes.
   * Nu 1:5-16; 2:3-30; 10:14-27
- twelve rods.
   * Ge 49:10 Ex 4:2,17 Ps 110:2; 125:3 Eze 19:14; 21:10,13
   * Eze 37:16-20 Mic 7:14

VERSE 3
    * Nu 3:2,3; 18:1,7 Ex 6:16,20

VERSE 4
    * Ex 25:16-22; 29:42,43; 30:6,36


VERSE 5 
 - Whom I.  See on ch.
   * Nu 16:5
- blossom.
   * :8 Isa 5:24; 11:1; 27:6; 35:1,2 Ho 14:5
- I will.
   * :10 Isa 13:11 Eze 16:41; 23:27
- they murmur.  See on ch.
   * Nu 16:11


VERSE 6 
 - a rod a-piece, for each prince one.  Heb. a rod for one
  prince, a rod for one prince.  See on ver.
   * :2

VERSE 7
    * Nu 18:2 Ex 38:21 Ac 7:44


VERSE 8 
 - the rod of Aaron.
  This fact was so unquestionably miraculous, that no doubt
  could remain on the minds of the people, or the envious
  chiefs, of the divine appointment of Aaron:  and as there were
  buds, blossoms, and fruit on the rod at the same time, which
  was never the case with branches in the natural and ordinary
  course, this evidently proved the miracle, and took away all
  suspicion of the fraud which has been impiously suggested,
  that Moses had taken away Aaron's rod in the night time, and
  put a living branch of an almond tree in the room of it.  A
  sceptre or staff of office resuming its vegetative life, was
  considered an absolute impossibility among the ancients; and
  as they were accustomed to swear by their sceptres, this
  circumstance was added to confirm the oath.

- budded.  See on ver.
   * :5 Ge 40:10 Ps 110:2; 132:17,18 So 2:3 Isa 4:2 Eze 17:24
   * Eze 19:12,14 Joh 15:1-6

VERSE 9


VERSE 10 
 - Bring Aaron's.
   * Heb 9:4
- for a token.
   * Nu 16:38,40 Ex 16:32 De 31:19-26
- rebels.  Heb. children of rebellion.
   * 1Sa 2:12; 30:22 Ps 57:4 Isa 1:2 Ho 10:9 Eph 2:2,3; 5:6
- and thou.
   * :5

VERSE 11


VERSE 12 
 - Behold.
   * Nu 26:11 Ps 90:7 Pr 19:3 Isa 57:16 Heb 12:5
- we die.
  {Gawanoo,} "we expire:"  it signifies not so much to die
  simply, as to feel an extreme difficulty in breathing, which
  producing suffocation, ends at last in death.  See the folly
  and extravagance of this sinful people, in thus rebelling
  against the authority of those whom Jehovah had appointed to
  be their rulers.


VERSE 13 
 - Whosoever.
   * Nu 1:51-53; 18:4-7
- any thing.
   * Ge 3:3 1Sa 6:19-21 2Sa 6:6-12 1Ch 13:11-13; 15:13 Ps 130:3,4
   * Ac 5:5,11-14 Eph 2:13 Heb 10:19-22
- consumed.
   * Nu 16:26; 32:13 De 2:16 Job 34:14,15 Ps 90:7 Isa 28:22



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