Numbers 33

The Ark and Mercy Seat stood in the Sanctum Sanctorum, at the west end of the Temple, not the East, and the Jewish Synagogues both anciently, and now were built round, or in an oval manner: neither is there any law, or canon of the Church or state of England, for the building of…

So likewise (Isaiah 30:21), you shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, the very coverings, those costly garments which Idolaters were wont to put upon their Idols, and the ornament of their molten images of gold, you shall cast them away as a menstruous…

At Exodus 12:12, God threatens "that He will execute judgments against all the gods of the Egyptians." That He gave effect to that threat, whatever it consisted in, Moses records at Numbers 33:4. Among the other cattle, there is no doubt that He slew Apis himself and the other a…

XIII. They are also variously called with respect to their outward form. Most frequently by a term meaning "images, likenesses": Numbers 33:52, "You shall destroy all their molten images." LXX., "molten images."

Now these were the Jews' near neighbors, and hated them deadly: these were the remainder of the nations which the Israelites had spared, although the Lord had expressly commanded them to be wholly rooted out. The people's infidelity was the cause why the Lord suffered this remna…

Here they came on the third day. For although it is said, that they went three days in the Wilderness and found no water (Exodus 15:22), after which mention is made of their coming to Mara, v. 23, yet it was in the evening of the third day; for they pitched that night in Mara (N…

3. It is a tree of long continuance, and keeps long green; hence (Psalm 92:12, 14) it is said of the righteous, they shall flourish like the palm tree; therefore (Joel 1:12) it is an evidence of great drought, when the palm tree withers. 4. They were looked on as most fit to be…