Zeal, Religious

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:3-22Joshua 24:15Joshua 24:162 Samuel 24:242 Samuel 24:251 Kings 9:41 Kings 15:141 Chronicles 29:172 Chronicles 15:152 Chronicles 19:3Ezra 7:23Job 16:19Psalms 42:1Psalms 42:2Psalms 60:4Psalms 96:2Psalms 96:3Psalms 96:10Psalms 119:139Proverbs 11:30Ecclesiastes 9:10
• EXEMPLIFIED Jude 1:3Exodus 32:31Exodus 32:32Numbers 10:29Numbers 11:29Deuteronomy 9:18Deuteronomy 9:19Joshua 24:14–161 Samuel 17:261 Kings 8:421 Kings 8:431 Kings 22:142 Chronicles 6:33Job 6:10Psalms 9:19Psalms 9:20Psalms 40:7–10Psalms 51:13Psalms 69:7–9Psalms 71:17Psalms 71:18
• INSTANCES OF
• MosesExodus 2:12Exodus 11:8Exodus 32:19Exodus 32:20
• PhinehasNumbers 25:7–13Psalms 106:30
• JoshuaNumbers 11:27–29Joshua 7:6Joshua 8:28
• GideonJudges 6:11–32
• JephthahJudges 11:30Judges 11:31Judges 11:34–39
• Samuel1 Samuel 12:231 Samuel 15:111 Samuel 15:351 Samuel 16:1
• King Saul1 Samuel 14:38–44
• King David2 Samuel 62 Samuel 7:22 Samuel 8:112 Samuel 8:12
• Elijah1 Kings 19:10

The passages, in Bible order (414)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 2:12

   After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 2:122 voices

   “He slew the Egyptian - Probably it was one of the Egyptian task-masters, whom he found abusing his Hebrew slave. By special warrant from heaven (which makes not a precedent in ordinary cases) Moses slew the Egyptian, and rescued his oppressed brother.

   “But we must not judge of his action in such a country and age by the standard of law and the notions of right which prevail in our Christian land; and, besides, not only is it not spoken of as a crime in Scripture or as distressing the perpetrator with remorse, but according to existing customs among nomadic tribes, he was bound to avenge the blood of a brother.

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2. Exodus 11:8

   And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.

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3. Exodus 32:19

   As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:191 voice

   “Moses was the meekest man on the earth, and yet when he saw the calf, and the dancing, his anger waxed hot. Note, It is no breach of the law of meekness to show our displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked. Those are angry and sin not that are angry at sin only, not as against themselves, but as against God.

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4. Exodus 32:20

   Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:201 voice

   “He took the calf - and burnt - and ground it to powder, etc. - How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder and strewed on the water! “But,” says an objector, “how could gold, the most ductile of all metals, and the most ponderous, be stamped into dust and strewed on water?” In Deu 9:21, this matter is fully explained.

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5. Exodus 32:26–29

   So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:26–292 voices

   “Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said--The camp is supposed to have been protected by a rampart after the attack of the Amalekites. Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me--The zeal and courage of Moses was astonishing, considering he opposed an intoxicated mob.

   “The interest of sin and wickedness is the devil's interest, and all wicked people side with that interest; the interest of truth and holiness is God's interest, with which all godly people side; and it is a case that will not admit a neutrality.

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6. Exodus 32:31

   So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.

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7. Exodus 32:32

   Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:322 voices

   “What warmth of affection did he evince for his brethren! How fully was he animated with the true spirit of a patriot, when he professed his willingness to die for them. But Christ actually died for His people (Ro 5:8).

   “What reproaches Moses had to bear from his people! But when the Lord would have avenged him on those who reviled him, he often used to offer himself for the people that he might save them from the divine anger. What gentle words he used to address the people, even after he was wronged! He comforted them in their labors, consoled them by his prophetic declarations of the future and encouraged them by his works. And though he often spoke with God, yet he was inclined to address men gently and pleasantly.

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8. Numbers 10:29

   Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 10:292 voices

   “And therefore this Hobab is not Jethro, but his son, which may seem more probable, because Jethro was old and unfit to travel, and desirous, as may well be thought, to die in his own country, whither he returned, Exod. xviii, 27, but Hobab was young and fitter for these journeys, and therefore entreated by Moses to stay and bear them company.

   “Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite--called also Reuel (the same as Jethro [Ex 2:18, Margin]). Hobab, the son of this Midianite chief and brother-in-law to Moses, seems to have sojourned among the Israelites during the whole period of their encampment at Sinai and now on their removal proposed returning to his own abode.

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9. Numbers 11:27–29

   A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

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   “They, however, received the gifts of the Spirit as well as their brethren. And when Moses was urged to forbid their prophesying, his answer displayed a noble disinterestedness as well as zeal for the glory of God akin to that of our Lord (Mr 9:39).

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10. Numbers 11:29

    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

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    “They, however, received the gifts of the Spirit as well as their brethren. And when Moses was urged to forbid their prophesying, his answer displayed a noble disinterestedness as well as zeal for the glory of God akin to that of our Lord (Mr 9:39).

    “Enviest thou for my sake - Art thou grieved because the gifts and graces of God are imparted to others besides me? Prophets - He saith prophets, not rulers, for that he knew was absurd and impossible. So we ought to be pleased, that God is glorified and good done, tho' to the lessening of our own honour.

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11. Numbers 25:7–13

    On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

    ›Commentary on Numbers 25:7–131 voice

    “And lest we appear to you to bring these things forth from our own understanding rather than from the authority of the divine Scriptures, go back to the book of Numbers and recall what Phinehas the priest did when he saw a harlot of the Midianite people with an Israelite man clinging in impure embraces in the eyes of all. Filled with the wrath of divine jealousy, he drove a sword, which he had seized, through the breast of both.

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12. Numbers 25:11–13

    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 25:11–132 voices

    “Phinehas . . . hath turned my wrath away--This assurance was a signal mark of honor that the stain of blood, instead of defiling, confirmed him in office and that his posterity should continue as long as the national existence of Israel.

    “Hath turned my wrath away - The signal example thus made of a leading offender by Phinehas was accepted by God as an expiation (literally in Num 25:13 “covering;” see the note at the typical significance Lev 1:4), and the exterminating wrath which had gone forth against the whole people was arrested Psa 106:30. The act of Phinehas must be regarded as exceptional.

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13. Deuteronomy 9:18

    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

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    “I fell down before the Lord, as at the first - Moses interceded for the people before he came down from the mountain the first time Exo 32:11-13. This intercession is only briefly alluded to in this verse. Afterward he spent another 40 days on the mountain in fasting and prayer to obtain a complete restitution of the covenant Exo 34:28. It is this second forty days, and the intercession of Moses made therein (compare Exo 34:9), that is more particularly brought forward here and in Deu 9:25-29.

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14. Deuteronomy 9:19

    For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

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15. Joshua 7:6

    Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 7:61 voice

    “Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth . . . before the ark . . . he and the elders--It is evident, from those tokens of humiliation and sorrow, that a solemn fast was observed on this occasion. The language of Joshua's prayer is thought by many to savor of human infirmity and to be wanting in that reverence and submission he owed to God.

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16. Joshua 8:28

    So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 8:282 voices

    “Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever--"For ever" often signifies "a long time" (Ge 6:3). One of the remarkable things with regard to the tell we have identified with Ai is its name--the tell of the heap of stones--a name which to this day remains [VAN DE VELDE].

    “And, though there was no curse entailed upon him that should rebuild it, yet, it seems, it was not rebuilt unless it be the same with Aijah, which we read of, long after, Neh. xi. Some think it was not rebuilt because Israel had received a defeat before it, the remembrance of which should be buried in the ruins of the city.

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