Numbers 16

The people of God have sins of daily incursion; and besides these, sometimes they lapse into great sins, and God is provoked, and his justice is ready to break forth upon them; but Christ's intercession is ready at hand, he daily makes up the breaches between God and them; he pr…

As he will wipe off tears from their eyes, so dust from their name. Moses when he was charged with ambition, that he took too much upon him, comforted himself with this, Tomorrow will the Lord show who are his (Numbers 16:5). So may the saints when reproached, comfort themselves…

The dulness of many in seeking after heaven is such, as if they did not believe there were such a kingdom, or as if it would not outweigh their labor, or as if they thought it were indifferent whether they obtained this kingdom or no, which is as much as to say, whether they wer…

They had the first lot, (Joshua 21:10). But as they were lifted up above others of the Levites in honor, so in pride, (Numbers 16:3). In the Thames when the tide rises higher, the boat rises higher; so when the tide of an estate rises higher, many men's hearts rise higher in pri…

(5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16. (6) Leviticus 10:1, 2; Numbers 16:3, 8, 9, 32, 35; 1 Samuel 2:28, 29; 2 Samuel 6:6, 7; 2 Chronicles 26:16, 19; 1 Corinthians 11:30. Explication.

Not all the posterity of Abraham but only those of Levi were set apart to receive tithes, and not all the posterity of Levi but only the family of Aaron did receive the priesthood. And this order of his sovereign pleasure God required of them all to submit to and acquiesce in (N…

And God gave an eminent instance of his severity with respect to this law in the punishment of Corah, though of the tribe of Levi, for the transgression of it. And he caused a perpetual memorial to be kept of that punishment, to the end they might know, that no stranger who is n…

But chiefly is it a day of manifestation in regard of the Sons of God (Romans 8:19). All is now hidden, Christ is hidden, and the saints are hidden, their life is hidden (Galatians 3:3), their glory is hidden (1 John 3:2), but then Christ shall appear, and we shall appear with h…

Oh! it were well with us if we did prevent God's heavy wrath by our repentance. Numbers 16:46: Moses said to Aaron, Take a Censer, and put fire therein from off the Altar, and put on Incense, and go quickly to the Congregation, and make an atonement for them; for there is wrath…

For this reason, in the midst of calamities, destructions, and public ruin, God preserved the Aaronic or priestly family to this extent — that there was never lacking from it one who would discharge the priesthood according to the prescription of the law. For He had strictly for…

Verse 14. The Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do. The second, Aaron's making an atonement for the people whereby the plague was stayed (Numbers 16:46). Take a censer quickly, for wrath is begun.

Which was the thing that caused both the apostles, Peter and Paul, and also the prophets so often to record and inculcate it. This caused Moses to say (Numbers 16): I have not taken so much as an ass from them: neither have I hurt any of them. And Samuel also (1 Samuel 12): You…

The water drowns Pharaoh and his chariots (Exodus 14:28). Earth swallows up Korah, with his fellow rebels (Numbers 16:32). Bears rend the children that mocked Elisha (2 Kings 2:24).

Now the train-bands are up in arms watching at every quarter for foreign men, because of the general fears and jealousies, and rumors that fire-balls were thrown into houses by several of them, to help on and provoke the too furious flames. Now goods are hastily removed from the…

And yet we must observe, that though Moses was the meekest man in the world, yet when God's honor and glory were concerned, none more warm and zealous; witness his resentment of the golden calf, when in a holy indignation at that abominable iniquity, he deliberately broke the ta…

The women reproved for offering incense to the Queen of heaven, did it not without their husbands, yet were they not excused thereby (Jeremiah 44:19). The children and others in the family submitted themselves to Dathan and Abiram in standing in the door of their tents at defian…

If they had a magistrate to choose, they go to God (Numbers 27:16): Let the Lord, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, set a man over the congregation. If a judgment to be averted (Numbers 16:22): O God, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be ang…

This is the hideous and direful destruction that hardness of heart has wrought. Go, rebellious sinner, into the wilderness, into the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram: see them rising up against the Lord and his officers, and reproaching their persons and proceedings, "You take…

God is a great King, and these are his children, for to them pertains the adoption; and it is a noble employment to be made tutors to a King's children: men are wont to be curious in their choice of such: and God is much more, in the directions which he has given about the quali…

By ceremonial worship, I understand all sacrifices and offerings, the whole service of the Tabernacle, and afterwards of the Temple: all which were typical, and established merely for the present dispensation, not without purpose of their abrogation, when that which was to be mo…

Now the outward covenant made with them, who were the children of Abraham after the flesh, was representative of the Covenant of Grace made with the children of Promise, and that whole people typified the hidden elect people of God; so that of both there is the same reason. Thus…

This woman escaped one judgment, for she fell not by the destruction of Sodom; yet she was destroyed by another, as we see: she is turned into a pillar of salt. Hopeful: True, and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what…

First, That God is a spirit. This expression is singular, and not to be parallell'd again in the Scripture; indeed we have often mention made in Scripture of the spirit of God, and the spirit of the Lord, which signifies a divine power and energy; and of the Holy Spirit, signify…

These things being laid, the arguments against traduction are these. First, the testimonies of Holy Scripture, calling God the Father of spirits, as our natural parent the father of our bodies (Job 33:4; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 57:16; Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Hebrews 12:9…

Such was the dividing of the Red Sea: the striking of the rock: and the flowing out of the waters (Numbers 20:11). The destruction of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, was evident to all the Israelites (Numbers 16:31, 32). So were the miracles which were wrought by the holy prophets, s…