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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. I should almost fear that they had omitted the keeping of the passover for a year. There was a first celebration of it when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. Oh, how wisely we should give advice if we would never decide till we had prayed about the matter! Possibly, we think ourselves so experienced, and so well acquainted with the mind of God, that we can answer offhand; or, peradventure, we think that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. What a solemn sentence that is! Let me read it apart from its connection: “Because he brought not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. Now comes another subject: -
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. This was the sign of the presence of God in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: Interpreters cannot make out what they had to complain of. The curse of labour had been removed; they did not earn their bread with the sweat of their face, for it fell from heaven every day. They were at no expense for clothing; and though they journeyed, their feet did not swell. I suppose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: All evil seems to begin there, among “the mixt multitude”, as it does among those church members who are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? Even the true people of God caught the infection of the scum that was mixed with them, and they fell weeping, and said, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: Fine stuff that to recollect! “Why!” say you, “you have read before something very much like that.” I am reading another record; but there is no originality in grumbling; it is always the same old thing over again....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. Here they pour contempt upon the bread of angels, upon the food of heaven, upon the benison of God. Oh, what will men not complain of?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. A fine white colour, like a pearl.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. At first they thought it was like wafers made with honey. Getting more used to it, they, perhaps, described it quite as accurately, but not quite so sweetly; they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. God took care to preserve his precious gift, encasing each single particle of it within a drop of dew, which gave it freshness. And when truth comes to us encased in the dew of the Spirit, how sweet is its taste! May it be so to us whenever we feed on Christ!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. And no wonder; meek man as he was, they vexed his gracious spirit by their perpetual murmurings. As we read this sad story, let us, as in a glass, see ourselves; and let us deeply...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, — This ordinance was not given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but in the wilderness of Paran, after the people had broken their covenant with God, and were condemned to die. You know that the 90th Psalm — that dolorous dirge which we read at funerals, — called, “a prayer of Moses the man of God.”...