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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. Yet still they went on sinning against the Most High.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And that was counted unto him for righteousness,.... Not for his justifying righteousness before God; for all the works of righteousness done by the best of men cannot justify them before him, much less a single action: but his executing judgment in the manner he did, or slaying the above two persons, was esteemed a righteous action by the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. It is not surprising that Moses should have spoken as he did to people who so worried and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: Poor Moses who loved them, and lived with them, yet lost his temper.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They angered him also at the waters of strife,.... Or, "at the waters of Meribah" (z); that is, Meribahkadesh, as it is called in Deuteronomy 32:51 to distinguish it from Meribahrephidim, where also were waters of strife or contradiction; at which the people murmured and strove with the Lord, and greatly displeased him, Exodus 17:7. So that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Does it not seem remarkable that Moses, the true servant of God, was not spared from punishment when it was but a word that he spoke unadvisedly, yet still the mercy of God was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because they provoked his spirit;.... Though he was a very meek man, meeker than any upon the face of the earth, Numbers 12:2, yet, being greatly provoked, let fall some passionate and undue expressions: and this was not only his sin, but the fault of those also that provoked him, and with this view it is mentioned. The Targum is, "for they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips What a people to have to do with! Who would wish to be Moses, and who would wish to be a minister?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They did not destroy the nations,.... Here begins an account of their sins and provocations, after they were settled in the land of Canaan. They did not destroy the inhabitants of the land, of the seven nations; whose land was given to them as an inheritance, and of which the Canaanites were dispossessed for their sins, and to be destroyed....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: but were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: but were mingled among the heathen, and learned their work. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. God warned them that it would be so, and that they must drive out those Canaanites, and not make a league with them, or else they would be sure to be led...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. They did not keep themselves separate. They would go and join this lot and that lot. They mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But were mingled among the Heathen,.... Not only dwelt among them, but made covenants and contracts, carried on trade and commerce, and intermarried with them, contrary to the express law of God, Deuteronomy 7:2. Nor should saints have communion with wicked men, especially in things sinful and superstitious, 2 Corinthians 6:14. And learned their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they served their idols,.... Of gold and silver, wood and stone; the works of men's hands, senseless creatures; which are nothing in the world, and bring grief and sorrow to the worshippers of them, from whence they have their name here given them; see Psalms 16:4. They served "their" idols, the idols of the Canaanites, who were dispossessed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Targum renders it by מזיקיא, which signifies spirits noxious and hurtful; but R. Elias Levita, in his Tishbi, p. 233, says it is a mistake to derive it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Yet these were God’s people, whom he brought out of Egypt, whom he tutored in the wilderness, whom he fed with manna, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And shed innocent blood,.... The blood of innocent persons; not that any of Adam's posterity, descending from him by ordinary generation, are strictly and properly innocent, or free from sin; self-righteous persons have thought themselves, touching the righteousness of the law, blameless; and some perfectionists have pretended to be free from sin,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus were they defiled with their own works,.... Not the land only, but they themselves also; or "with their works" (a), with the works of the Heathen they learned, Psalms 106:35, or rather with their own works, the works of the flesh, especially their shocking idolatries: sin is of a defiling nature; it has defiled all men, it defiles all of men,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought...