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Numbers 20:25

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Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor;

KJV

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:

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This verse in Numbers 20

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor

on Numbers 20:23-26

The ground for Aaron's death outside the land is named as the water of Meribah, so the sentence of verse 12 is read back over both brothers. Aaron is stripped of his garments and Eleazar is clothed in them while Aaron is alive to watch it, which Adam Clarke reads as the ordinary form of transferring an office, by investing the successor in the robes. Hebrews 7:23-24 takes up this very thing, that the Levitical priests were many because death stopped them, and that the priesthood of Christ passes to no one. Gathered unto his people is the phrase used of Abraham at Genesis 25:8 and of Isaac at Genesis 35:29.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son,.... His eldest son, who was to succeed him in the priesthood, and did: and bring them up unto Mount Hor; to the top of it, they being now at the foot of it, where the people of Israel lay encamped.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But although the time of his death was hastened by the divine displeasure as a punishment for his sins, the manner of his death was arranged in tenderness of love, and to do him honor at the close of his earthly service. His ascent of the mount was to afford him a last look of the camp and a distant prospect of the promised land.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • קַ֚חtake

    kachH3947 →966 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֔ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • אֶלְעָזָ֖רEleazar

    ʾelazarH499 →72 times

  • בְּנ֑וֹson his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

  • וְהַ֥עַלand bring up

    vehaalH5927 →890 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • הֹ֥רHor

    horH2023 →12 times

  • הָהָֽר׃the mountain

    haharH2022 →546 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 20 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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