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Numbers 27:19

in Numbers 27

Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

KJV

And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

This verse in Numbers 27

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Take Joshua son of Nun

on Numbers 27:18-19

The one qualification named is that Joshua is "a man with the Spirit in him", and the camp had watched him at Exodus 17:9, Exodus 33:11 and Numbers 14:6-9. Deuteronomy 34:9 says he "was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him". The charge is given "in their sight", so the congregation watches the transfer.

This site's exposition

commission him in their sight

John Wesley takes the commission as counsel and instruction for the trust Joshua was receiving. Matthew Henry says the people were given into his hand as sheep to a shepherd, and he would answer for them. Joshua would command Israel. Henry adds that he stayed under command himself, since the highest must know there is one higher.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He must be charged with the people of Israel, who were delivered into his hand as sheep into the hand of a shepherd, and for whom he must be accountable. He must be strictly charged to do his duty to them; though they were under his command, he was under God's command, and from him must receive charge. The highest must know that there is a higher than they.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְהַֽעֲמַדְתָּ֣and you will make stand

    vehaamadtaH5975 →521 times

  • אֹת֗וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • לִפְנֵי֙<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אֶלְעָזָ֣רEleazar

    ʾelazarH499 →72 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וְלִפְנֵ֖יand <to> before

    velifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֵדָ֑הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • וְצִוִּיתָ֥הand you will commission

    vetzivitahH6680 →494 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃to eyes their

    leeineihemH5869 →887 times

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 3:28

    But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:45

      And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 31:3

      The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

  • Through

    1 Timothy 5:21

    I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:4

      For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

    • 2 Timothy 4:1

      I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

    • 1 Timothy 6:13

      I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:

    • 2 Timothy 2:14

      Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 31:23

    Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:7–8

      Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to…

    • Deuteronomy 31:14

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua…

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary.