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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,.... The same with Egypt; Mizraim, from whence Egypt had its name, being the son of Ham; [See comments on Psalms 78:51]. [See comments on Psalms 105:23], and these wondrous things are the same plagues as before, so called because they exceeded the power of nature; the magicians themselves confessed the finger of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore he said that he would destroy them,.... He said in his word, the Targum adds; he thought within himself he would; he seemed determined in his own mind to destroy them, being provoked at their wretched forgetfulness of him, and their idolatry; he said to Moses, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. How often has our blessed Mediator, who is far greater than Moses, stood before the Lord in the breach! How often has the great Husbandman said, concerning the fruitless tree, “Cut it down; why...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, they despised the pleasant land,.... Or "land of desire" (r); the land of Canaan; a very delightful and desirable country, the glory of all lands, a land that abounded with everything for necessity and pleasure. The spies themselves, that brought an ill report of it, owned it was a land flowing with milk and honey; but that there were such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, — They said that the Canaan towards which they were traveling was not worth the trouble of getting to it: “They despised the pleasant land,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They believed not his word: but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: to overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: They said that the land that flowed with milk and honey was a land that did eat up the inhabitants thereof, and that was full of giants, and they could not drive them out.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: But murmured in their tents, and harkened not unto the voice of the LORD. This murmuring in your tents is a very obnoxious thing to God. Always grumbling and complaining. “It is an Englishman’s privilege,” says one. Mind it does not turn out to be an Englishman’s ruin, for God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But murmured in their tents,.... Throughout their tents; the murmuring was general; they murmured often; but what is here referred to seems to be their murmuring upon the report of the spies, Numbers 14:2. To murmur against God and his providence is a very great evil; and which generally proceeds on one or other of these two things; either because...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But murmured in their hearts, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. Do we ever fall into this sin of murmuring in the family, murmuring in the counting-house, murmuring against men, and murmuring against God, as they murmured in their tents?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them,.... A gesture used in swearing, Genesis 14:22. So the Targum understands it here, "and he lifted up his hand with an oath, because of them:'' and so it is interpreted by Aben Ezra, Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; and agrees with Numbers 14:28. The same gesture was used by the Heathens in swearing, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: to overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. They turned aside from the pure worship of the living God to hold communion with departed spirits; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifice of the dead. They tried to practice necromancy — to have communion with spirits; they tried to learn the dark science...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To overthrow their seed also among the nations,.... Their posterity was not overthrown in the wilderness; they were spared to possess the land their fathers despised. This respects later times, as does what follows: and to scatter them in the lands; which Kimchi explains by the discomfiture of them by the Amalekites and Canaanites, when they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol in many countries; wherefore, to distinguish one from another, an additional name was used. Baalzephon was the god of the Egyptians; Baalzebub the god of the Ekronites; and here Baalpeor the god of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions,.... Sin is an invention of man's: when our first parents sinned, they found out many inventions; and their posterity ever since have been inventors of evil things; and man's invention is very quick at that work. All false doctrine and false worship are of men's finding out; all idolatrous...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. Now notice how something always happened to spare them from the destruction which they deserved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. God always has somebody to stand up for him, it is Moses one day, and Phinehas another day. He will not permit his people utterly to quit their faith and to be destroyed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. In his hot zeal he ran the spear through two who were rebelling against God. He did it with all his might, and sometimes it is a kindness to a people to deal severely with them. Sin...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment,.... When none else would, he rose up in great zeal for the Lord of hosts; and took on him the work of a civil magistrate, and slew two persons of noble birth in the very act of fornication. The Targum is, "he prayed'' and so the Syriac version "he interceded with the Lord, that the plague might...