Numbers 9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 9

This chapter is, I. Concerning the great ordinance of the passover; 1. Orders given for the observance of it, at the return of the year, Num. 9:1-5. 2. Provisos added in regard to such as should be ceremonially unclean, or otherwise disabled, at the time when the passover was to be kept, Num. 9:6-14. II. Concerning the great favour of the pillar of cloud, which was a guide to Israel through the wilderness, Num. 9:15 read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 9:1-14

Here we have, I. An order given for the solemnization of the passover, the day twelvemonth after they came out of Egypt, on the fourteenth day of the first month of the second year, some days before they were numbered, for that was done in the beginning of the second month. Observe, 1. God gave particular orders for the keeping of this passover, otherwise (it should seem) they would not have kept it, for, in the first institution of this ordinance, it was appointed to be kept when they should... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 9:15-23

We have here the history of the cloud; not a natural history: who knows the balancings of the clouds? but a divine history of a cloud that was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God's presence with Israel. I. When the tabernacle was finished this cloud, which before had hung on high over their camp, settled upon the tabernacle, and covered it, to show that God manifests his presence with his people in and by his ordinances; there he makes himself known, and to them we must look if... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 9 In this chapter the command for keeping the passover is repeated, and it was accordingly kept, Numbers 9:1 ; but some persons being defiled and disqualified for observing it, Moses inquires of the Lord, on their solicitation, what should be done in such a case, Numbers 9:6 ; when it was ordered to be kept by such, and those on journeys, on the fourteenth day of the second month, but not by others, who were to observe it according to its first appointment, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai ,.... While the people of Israel were encamped there, before they took their journey from thence: in the first month of the second year, after they were come out of the land of Egypt : the following order was given some time in the first month of the second year of Israel's departure out of Egypt; the precise day is not mentioned, it must be in the beginning of the month before the fourteenth day of it, in which the passover is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:2

Let the children of Israel also keep the passover ,.... Though this ordinance was enjoined the people of Israel, and observed by them at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and had been since repeated, Leviticus 23:5 ; yet without a fresh precept, or an explanation of the former, they seemed not to be obliged, or might not be sensible that they were obliged to keep it, until they came into the land of Canaan, Exodus 12:25 ; and therefore a new order is given them to observe it: at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:3

In the fourteenth day of this month ,.... The first month, the month Nisan or Abib, answering to part of our March: at even ye shall keep it, in his appointed season : between the two evenings, Exodus 12:6 ; and even if it fall on the sabbath day, as Jarchi; and this was a sabbath day, according to the Jewish writers F25 Seder Olam Rabba. c. 7. : according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it ; the former of these, according to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:4

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. The time now drawing nigh for the observation of it, it being now almost a year since their coming out of Egypt. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:5

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth, day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai ,.... No mention is made of keeping the feast of unleavened bread seven days, only of the passover, which indeed was only enjoined at this time, though the feast of unleavened bread used to follow it, and did in later times; but perhaps it would not have been an easy matter to have got the flour to make it of, sufficient for so large a body of people, for seven days together in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man ,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds,"who died by them suddenly,'whereby pollution was contracted, see Numbers 6:9 ; though perhaps this was a whole house or family, one of which was dead, and so all were defiled, being in the place where the dead body was, or had touched it, or been concerned however in the burying of it, and on account of which were unclean seven days, and so might not eat of any holy things, as the... read more

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