Numbers 20

Korah and his company murmured against God, and see how the Lord interprets this (Numbers 17:10): Bring Aaron's rod to be kept for a token against the rebels: To be a murmurer and a rebel is in God's account all one. Numbers 20:13: This is the water of Meribah, because the child…

And hereof an instance was given in Aaron the first of them. God to shew the nature of this priesthood to the people, and to manifest that the everlasting Priest was not yet come, commanded Aaron to dye in the sight of all the congregation (Numbers 20:25, 26, 27, 28). So did the…

For on the budding of it on the trial about the Priesthood, it was laid up before the Testimony, that is, the Ark (Numbers 17:10). That same Rod did Moses take from before the Testimony, when he was to smite the Rock with it, and work a miracle, whereof this was consecrated to b…

To justify, is to acquit from accusation; so does faith acquit God's truth in the word, from all the jealousies which the carnal world, and our carnal hearts do cast upon him. Faith is said to sanctify God (Numbers 20:12). To sanctify, is to set apart from common use; and God is…

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. The word signifies, they made haste, took it ill, they were not presently brought into that plenty, that was promised (Numbers 20:5). Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evi…

Therefore we are commanded in persecution to sanctify God in our hearts (1 Peter 3:17). And Moses, because he failed in the doing of this duty, was barred the land of Canaan (Numbers 20:12). In England God has wrought his wondrous works among us.

And yet the Prophet condemns not only the men of his age, but those also of the ages before. For we see that under the conduct of Moses himself, they rebelled and murmured against God (Exodus 17:2; Numbers 20:3). Hence it came, that God who tenderly loved them, as it is in verse…

Now in that arrangement, Abijah, son of Eleazar, held the eighth rank, (1 Chronicles 24:10.) Zacharias, therefore, belonged to the priestly family, and to the posterity of Eleazar who had succeeded his father in the high priest's office, (Numbers 20:28.) In what manner Elisabeth…

Get and keep mercies in God's way, or there is death in the pot. Forty years after this, when the first whole evil generation was consumed, the children who were risen up in their fathers' stead, fall a murmuring for water in the wilderness of Zin: and with a profligacy of rebel…

Vocatur autem Angelus quia mundum gubernat. Scriptum est enim Deuteronomy 6:21. eduxit vos Jehovah ex Aegypto; & alibi Numbers 20:6. misit Angelum suum & eduxit vos ex Aegypto. Praeterea scriptum est Isaiah 63:9. & Angelus facici ejus salvos fecit ipsos.

Even then when there may be occasion for a keenness of expression, and we are called to rebuke sharply ([illegible], cuttingly) (Titus 1:2), yet meekness forbids all fury and indecency of language, and everything that sounds like clamor and evil speaking (Ephesians 4:31). The me…

To glorify God, is, to do that which simply and absolutely tends to the manifestation of his excellency, without any relation to the creature: but to sanctify God, is, to set God above the creature, to do that which tends to exalt his greatness and excellency from and above all…

What a blessed frame of heart is this? A contented Christian is an advocate for God against unbelief and impatience; whereas discontent takes every thing from God in the worst sense; it does implead and censure God: this evil I feel is but a symptom of greater evil: God is about…

Now when men are brought into an intimacy with God, and have received great engagements from him, the Lord takes notice of every working and acting of their souls in an especial manner, and is oftentimes grieved and provoked with that in them which others can take no notice of.…

David is often fainting in misery, yet by and by revived. Therefore there is good cause why the consideration of repentance and the combat should go together, that no man, after he has begun to repent, might dream of ease to his flesh, as though we should go to heaven in beds of…

It is the want of faith that keeps good things from us; Christ could not do many things among them, because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5). Unbelief kept Moses and Aaron out of the promised land (Numbers 20:12), and the prince from tasting of the plenty (2 Kings 7, last verse). Al…

Such were the wonders of Egypt. 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).