Numbers 9

There is no casting up of accounts in a crowd; nor can we examine ourselves when we are in a crowd of worldly businesses. We read, a man that was in a journey might not come to the Passover (Numbers 9:13), because his mind was full of secular cares, and his thoughts were taken u…

As Hushai said (2 Samuel 17:7), "The counsel is not good at this time." There was a set time enjoined for the Passover, when the Jews were to bring their offering to the Lord (Numbers 9:2). Had the people been reading the law at home, in the time of the Passover, it had not been…

For the Paschal Lamb was a sign of Christ the true Lamb of God, shadowing out diverse things worthy our observation: as first the Lamb; for the Passover was to be a Lamb of a year old, without spot or blemish: which signified unto us, that Christ was that immaculate Lamb of God…

(Ezekiel 23:49). And you shall bear the sins of your idols. (Numbers 9:13). The man that is clean — and forbears to eat the Passover — that man shall bear his sin. So when God lays sin to the charge of the sinner, in punishing it, he is said to lay a burden on the sinner, (2 Kin…

The great God who has appointed the duties of his worship has appointed also the time. God enjoined a set time for the Passover (Numbers 9:2-3): let the children of Israel keep the Passover at his appointed season. Had the people of Israel been reading the law at home or praying…