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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:20

But even a whole month ,.... So long the Israelites continued at Taberah or Kibrothhattaavah, as the Jews F15 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24. conclude from this clause: until it come out at your nostrils ; being vomited up, through a nausea of it, the stomach being overfilled and glutted with it; in which case, it will make its way through the nostrils, as well as out of the mouth: and it be loathsome unto you ; being surfeited with it; or it shall be for "dispersion" F16 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:21

And Moses said ,.... By way of objection to what God had promised, distrusting his power to perform: the people amongst whom I am ; among whom he dwelt, of whom he was a part, and over whom he was a ruler: are six hundred thousand footmen ; that were able to travel on foot, and were fit for war: this was the number of them when they came out of Egypt, Exodus 12:37 ; they amounted in their last numbering to 3,550 more, which lesser number is here omitted, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:22

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them ?.... Suggesting that if all their cattle, their sheep, and oxen were killed, which they and the mixed multitude brought out of Egypt, they would not be sufficient for them to live upon a whole month; and intimating also, that it would be an unwise thing, and very improper, to slay them all, were they sufficient, since then they would have none for sacrifice, or to breed when they came into the land of Canaan; the Targum of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:23

And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... In answer to his objection, without upbraiding him with his sin of unbelief: is the Lord's hand waxed short ? or his power diminished since the creation, when he formed all things out of nothing, and what is it then he is not able to do? or since he wrought the wonders in Egypt, divided the Red sea, rained down manna from heaven, and smote the rock at Horeb, from whence waters flowed sufficient for all this people, and their flocks and herds; and he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:24

And Moses went out ,.... Either out of his own tent, about which the people assembled, complaining and weeping, Numbers 11:10 ; or rather, as Aben Ezra, out of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the sanctuary where he had been conversing with God, about the affairs complained of both by the people and by himself; so the Targum of Jonathan says, he went out of the tabernacle, the house of the Shechinah or divine Majesty: and told the people of the words of the Lord ; what he had... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:25

And the Lord came down in a cloud ,.... In a cloud of glory, or a glorious one, as the Targums; either in the same that went before the people in the wilderness, or in one distinct from it, and only used on this occasion, as a visible token of the presence of God: and spake unto him ; to Moses, talked with him, as he said he would, Numbers 11:17 , and took of the Spirit which was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders ; See Gill on Numbers 11:17 , and it came to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:26

But there remained two of the men in the camp ,.... Of the seventy who were summoned, that came not out of the camp of Israel to the tabernacle when the rest did: the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad : who, according to the Targum of Jonathan, were brethren of Moses by his mother's side; for it says, they were the sons of Elizaphan the son of Parnac, whom Jochebed the daughter of Levi brought forth at the time that Amram her husband dismissed her, and she... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:27

And there ran a young man ,.... From the camp to the tabernacle, who had heard Eldad and Medad prophesy; which he thought was not right, being done without the knowledge and approbation of Moses, and in a private tent in the tabernacle, not among the elders, but the common people: who this young than was is not material to know; some of the Rabbins, as Jarchi says, affirm he was Gershon the son of Moses; whoever he was, no doubt, it was with a good design, consulting the glory of God and the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:28

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses ,.... That waited upon him, and ministered to him, and executed his orders, especially in civil things, and was to be his successor: one of his young men ; not that Joshua was a young man in age, for he must be now between fifty and sixty years of age; see Gill on Exodus 33:11 ; nor does the word necessarily suppose that those men were young among whom Joshua was; but choice excellent persons, the principal servants of Moses, at the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:29

Moses said unto him, enviest thou for my sake ?.... Lest his authority should be weakened, and his honour lessened, because they began not to prophesy in his presence, and at the tabernacle, and among the rest of the elders, and so seemed not to have received of the Spirit that was upon him, and to be independent of him: would God that all the Lord's people were prophets ; this is not to he understood in the most absolute sense, as if Moses wished that every individual person among the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:29

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