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Wesley -> Num 15:2
Wesley: Num 15:2 - -- Will certainly give you, not withstanding this great provocation. And for their better assurance hereof he repeats and amplifies the laws of sacrifice...
Will certainly give you, not withstanding this great provocation. And for their better assurance hereof he repeats and amplifies the laws of sacrifices, whereby through Christ he would be reconciled to them and theirs upon their repentance.
JFB -> Num 15:1-2
JFB: Num 15:1-2 - -- Some infer from Num 15:23 that the date of this communication must be fixed towards the close of the wanderings in the wilderness; and, also, that all...
Some infer from Num 15:23 that the date of this communication must be fixed towards the close of the wanderings in the wilderness; and, also, that all the sacrifices prescribed in the law were to be offered only after the settlement in Canaan.
Clarke -> Num 15:2
Clarke: Num 15:2 - -- When ye be come into the land - Some learned men are of opinion that several offerings prescribed by the law were not intended to be made in the wil...
When ye be come into the land - Some learned men are of opinion that several offerings prescribed by the law were not intended to be made in the wilderness, but in the promised land; the former not affording those conveniences which were necessary to the complete observance of the Divine worship in this and several other respects.
Calvin -> Num 15:1
Calvin: Num 15:1 - -- 1.And the Lord spake He partly here adverts to those precepts of which he had treated more distinctly and fully in Leviticus, and partly gathers into...
1.And the Lord spake He partly here adverts to those precepts of which he had treated more distinctly and fully in Leviticus, and partly gathers into one place what he had before spoken of in various places and more obscurely. For as yet he had delivered no certain regulations as to the accessories to the meat-offering of oil and wine; but what he had before appropriated to particular cases he now commands to be observed generally, and what he had treated of more accurately he now lightly passes over; for he does not enter into full particulars, but only forbids that sacrifices should be offered without flour, a libation of wine, and oil. We have seen elsewhere that in the sacrifices and oblations, wherein God consulted the rude condition of the people, He took as it were the character of a man, as if He feasted there familiarly with them. In this sense He elsewhere calls the sacrifices His meat, 291 not because He, who is the life in Himself and inspires the life of all, requires the supports of life, but because, unless He descends to men, He cannot lift up their minds to things above. Still, inasmuch as there was danger on the other side lest the people should introduce many inane and superfluous pomps, as we see that in their sacred feasts the Gentiles were foolishly and immoderately luxurious, as if their delicacies gave pleasure to God, the measure of each particular thing is prescribed, that they may not dare to invent anything arbitrarily. The conjecture is probable that what had been before delivered with sufficient clearness is here again recalled to their memory. But since this reason is not expressly given, it will be enough to hold fast what has been frequently stated, that although the ceremonies might be of trifling importance, still it was necessary that the lawful should be carefully distinguished from the unauthorized, in order that the licentiousness of men might be anticipated, who would otherwise have failed not to mingle their own leaven. The sum of this passage is, that both in the solemn sacrifices which the Law demands, as well as in the free-will-offerings, they should observe that proportion of which we have treated elsewhere.
TSK: Num 15:1 - -- It is very probable, that the transactions recorded in this and the four following chapters took place during the time the Israelites abode in Kadesh ...
It is very probable, that the transactions recorded in this and the four following chapters took place during the time the Israelites abode in Kadesh (Deu 1:46).
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Barnes: Num 15:1 - -- The contents of the next five chapters must apparently be referred to the long period of wandering to which Num 14:33 the people were condemned.
The contents of the next five chapters must apparently be referred to the long period of wandering to which Num 14:33 the people were condemned.
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Barnes: Num 15:2 - -- To the Israelites of the younger generation is conveyed the hope that the nation should yet enter into the land of promise. The ordinances that foll...
To the Israelites of the younger generation is conveyed the hope that the nation should yet enter into the land of promise. The ordinances that follow are more likely to have been addressed to adults than to children; and we may therefore assume that at the date of their delivery the new generation was growing up, and the period of wandering drawing toward its close. During that period the meat-offerings and drink-offerings prescribed by the Law had been probably intermitted by reason of the scanty supply of grain and wine in the wilderness. The command therefore to provide such offerings was a pledge to Israel that it should possess the land which was to furnish the wherewithal for them.
Poole -> Num 15:2
Poole: Num 15:2 - -- i.e. Will certainly give you notwithstanding this great provacation, and my unchangeable commination. And for their better assurance hereof, he repe...
i.e. Will certainly give you notwithstanding this great provacation, and my unchangeable commination. And for their better assurance hereof, he repeats and amplifies the laws of sacrifices, whereby through Christ he was or would be reconciled to them and theirs upon their repentance.
Haydock -> Num 15:2
Gill: Num 15:1 - -- The Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the murmurings of the Israelites by reason of the spies, Num 14:2; and their being threatened with a consumption ...
The Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the murmurings of the Israelites by reason of the spies, Num 14:2; and their being threatened with a consumption of them in the wilderness on that account, Num 14:12; and their defeat at Hormah, Num 14:45, and lest their posterity should be discouraged, and despair of ever enjoying the good land:
saying; as follows.
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Gill: Num 15:2 - -- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... The younger sort of them, such as were under twenty years of age; for those of that age and ...
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... The younger sort of them, such as were under twenty years of age; for those of that age and upwards, who had murmured against the Lord, had been assured by him with an oath that they should die in the wilderness, and not see the land of Canaan, Num 14:29; whereas those Moses is here bid to speak to were such that should possess it:
when ye come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto,
you; the land of Canaan, the grant of which is here renewed to them, and an assurance given of their coming into it and settlement in it; and that they should have dwelling places there for their several tribes and families.
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NET Notes: Num 15:1 The wilderness wandering officially having begun, these rules were then given for the people to be used when they finally entered the land. That they ...
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NET Notes: Num 15:2 The Hebrew participle here has the futur instans use of the participle, expressing that something is going to take place. It is not imminent, but it i...
Geneva Bible -> Num 15:2
Geneva Bible: Num 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the ( a ) land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
( a ) Into the ...
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TSK Synopsis -> Num 15:1-41
TSK Synopsis: Num 15:1-41 - --1 :1 The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering.14 The stranger is under the same law.17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave offe...
MHCC -> Num 15:1-21
MHCC: Num 15:1-21 - --Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When ye come into the land of...
Matthew Henry -> Num 15:1-21
Matthew Henry: Num 15:1-21 - -- Here we have, I. Full instructions given concerning the meat-offerings and drink-offerings, which were appendages to all the sacrifices of animals. ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Num 15:1-31
Keil-Delitzsch: Num 15:1-31 - --
Num 15:1-2
Regulations concerning Sacrifices. - Vv. 1-16. For the purpose of reviving the hopes of the new generation that was growing up, and dire...
Constable: Num 11:1--20:29 - --1. The cycle of rebellion, atonement, and death chs. 11-20
The end of chapter 10 is the high poi...
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Constable: Num 15:1--19:22 - --Laws given during the 38 years of discipline chs. 15-19
Moses recorded few events during...
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