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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Aaron the saint of the LORD. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. What a descent it was to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. They began to pick holes in their character. Good men that lived for them, and were ready to die for them — they began to spit upon them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. Jehovah’s mercy did not melt the people’s hard hearts, so perhaps the fear of his judgment would. God tried both methods with them, as he has done with us, for sometimes he has been very gracious to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. See! they had been in Egypt. They had seen the Egyptians...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. They forgot God their Saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. What was to become of such a people, provoking him again and again?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. 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. You remember the intercession of Moses with the Lord,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They forgot God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. 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. They had found fault with Moses, yet Moses stood...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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.
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...