SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:42
Y aconteció que, cuando se juntó la congregación contra Moisés y Aarón, miraron hacia el tabernáculo del testimonio, y he aquí la nube lo había cubierto, y apareció la gloria del SEÑOR.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 42. And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron , etc.] To kill them, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; who, perhaps, upon uttering their murmurs, made up to them, and by their gestures showed an intention to murder them: that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation ; either the people did, to see whether they could observe any appearance of the displeasure of God against them; or rather Moses and Aaron looked that way for help and deliverance in this extreme danger, knowing there was no salvation for them but of the Lord, ( Jeremiah 3:23); and, behold, the cloud covered it ; as when it was first erected, and which was a token of the divine Presence, ( Numbers 9:15,16); perhaps it had dispersed immediately upon the death of the rebels, and now returned again in favour of the servants of the Lord: and the glory of the Lord appeared ; in the cloud, as in ( Numbers 16:19); to encourage Moses and Aaron, and to deliver them out of the hands of the people, and to the terror of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 41-50 - The gaping earth was scarcely closed, before the same sins are agai committed, and all these warnings slighted. They called the rebels the people of the Lord; and find fault with Divine justice. The obstinac of Israel notwithstanding the terrors of God's law, as given on moun Sinai, and the terrors of his judgments, shows how necessary the grac of God is to change men's hearts and lives. Love will do what fea cannot. Moses and Aaron interceded with God for mercy, knowing ho great the provocation was. Aaron went, and burned incense between the living and the dead, not to purify the air, but to pacify an offende God. As one tender of the life of every Israelite, Aaron made all possible speed. We must render good for evil. Observe especially, tha Aaron was a type of Christ. There is an infection of sin in the world which only the cross and intercession of Jesus Christ can stay an remove. He enters the defiled and dying camp. He stands between the dead and the living; between the eternal Judge and the souls unde condemnation. We must have redemption through His blood, even the remission of sins. We admire the ready devotion of Aaron: shall we no bless and praise the unspeakable grace and love which filled the Saviour's heart, when he placed himself in our stead, and bought u with his life? Greatly indeed hath God commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, Ro 5:8 __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 בהקהל 6950 העדה 5712 על 5921 משׁה 4872 ועל 5921 אהרן 175 ויפנו 6437 אל 413 אהל 168 מועד 4150 והנה 2009 כסהו 3680 הענן 6051 וירא 7200 כבוד 3519 יהוה׃ 3068
