SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:28
Y dijo Moisés: En esto conoceréis que el SEÑOR me ha enviado para que hiciese todas estas cosas; y que no las hice de mi propio corazón.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works , etc.] To bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, to exchange the firstborn for the Levites, to make Aaron and his sons priests, to give the Levites to them, and to set Elizaphan over the Kohathites, things which these men found fault with, and questioned his authority for doing them: for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind ; or “not out of my heart” f227 ; he had not devised them himself, and done them of his own head, and in any arbitrary way, without the will of God or any authority from him, as these men suggested.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 23-34 - The seventy elders of Israel attend Moses. It is our duty to do what we can to countenance and support lawful authority when it is opposed. An those who would not perish with sinners, must come out from among them and be separate. It was in answer to the prayer of Moses, that God stirred up the hearts of the congregation to remove for their ow safety. Grace to separate from evil-doers is one of the things tha accompany salvation. God, in justice, left the rebels to the obstinac and hardness of their own hearts. Moses, by Divine direction, when all Israel were waiting the event, declares that if the rebels die a commo death, he will be content to be called and counted an imposter. As soo as Moses had spoken the word, God caused the earth to open and swallo them all up. The children perished with their parents; in which, thoug we cannot tell how bad they might be to deserve it, or how good God might be otherwise to them; yet of this we are sure, that Infinit Justice did them no wrong. It was altogether miraculous. God has, when he pleases, strange punishments for the workers of iniquity. It wa very significant. Considering how the earth is still in like manne loaded with the weight of man's sins, we have reason to wonder that is does not now sink under its load. The ruin of others should be ou warning. Could we, by faith, hear the outcries of those that are gon down to the bottomless pit, we should give more diligence than we do to escape for our lives, lest we also come into their condemnation.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 משׁה 4872 בזאת 2063 תדעון 3045 כי 3588 יהוה 3068 שׁלחני 7971 לעשׂות 6213 את 853 כל 3605 המעשׂים 4639 האלה 428 כי 3588 לא 3808 מלבי׃ 3820
