My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
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My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
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My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
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My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house;
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- Hebrews 3:2-6 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house. For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
- Joshua 1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
- Psalms 105:26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
- Matthew 11:11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
- 1 Corinthians 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
- Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Matthew 11:9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
- Acts 3:22-23 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
- Acts 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
- 1 Timothy 3:15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 1 Peter 2:4-5 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain In all Israel which was his Church.
In all Israel which was his Church.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 12:7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who…
Num 12:7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all mine house.
Ver. 7. My servant Moses is not so.] God had never so much magnified Moses to them, but for their envy. We cannot devise to pleasure God’s servants so much as by despiting them. Quisquis volens detrahit famae meae, nolens addit mercedi meae, saith Augustine; He that willingly detracteth from mine honour, doth, though against his will, add to my reward.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Whom I have set over all my house,…
i.e. Whom I have set over all my house, i.e. my church and people, and therefore over you, and who hath discharged his office faithfully, and not partially and selfseekingly, as you falsely accuse him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain My servant Moses is not so,.... Or such a…
My servant Moses is not so,.... Or such a prophet; he is not so used; it was not in such a manner the Lord spake to him; not in visions and dreams, as he had to Abraham and Jacob, and did to others in later times:
who is faithful in all mine house; in the house of Israel, or among that people which were the Lord's family, where Moses was a servant and steward, and did all things according to the will of the Lord, the master of the family; he faithfully delivered to them all the laws, statutes, and ordinances, which he appointed to be observed by them: unless this is to be understood of the tabernacle, which was the house of God, in which he dwelt, and which was made, and all things in it, exactly according to the pattern given by the Lord to Moses: see Heb 3:2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In all my house - That is, whom I…
In all my house - That is, whom I have set over all my house, my church and people, and therefore over you; and who hath discharged his office faithfully, and not partially as you falsely accuse him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Moses - is faithful] נאמן neeman, a…
Verse 7. Moses - is faithful] נאמן neeman, a prefect or superintendent. So Samuel is termed, 1Sa 2:35; 1Sa 3:20; David is so called, 1Sa 18:27, Neeman, and son-in-law of the king. Job 12:20, speaks of the Neemanim as a name of dignity. It seems also to have been a title of respect given to ambassadors, Pr 13:17; Pr 25:13. Calmet well observes that the word fidelity is often used for an employ, office, or dignity, and refers to 1Ch 9:22, 1Ch 9:26, 1Ch 9:31; 2Ch 31:12, 2Ch 31:15; 2Ch 34:12, &c. Moses was a faithful, well-tried servant in the house of God, and therefore he uses him as a familiar, and puts confidence in him.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 12:7. My servant Moses is not so —…
Num 12:7. My servant Moses is not so — He is a prophet of a higher rank.
To him I impart my mind in a far more noble and clear way. Who is faithful in all my house — God had set him over all Israel, who were his house, his family, or chosen people, and Moses was faithful in the performance of the trust reposed in him, executing all the divine commands, and doing nothing partially or of himself, as he was now falsely accused. In this he was an eminent type of Christ, as the apostle represents him, Heb 3:1-6.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Faithful: Hebrew Neeman, steward or master of the palace.…
Faithful: Hebrew Neeman, steward or master of the palace. Such was Samuel, 1 Kings iii. 20; David, (Calmet) 1 Kings xxii. 14; Naaman, the general of Syria, 2 Kings v.; and Bacchides, 1 Machabees vii. (Haydock) --- Ambassadors had this title, (Proverbs xiii. 17,) and fidelity often denotes an office, 1 Paralipomenon ix. 22. Job (xii. 20,) speaks of the Namonim. (Calmet) --- But none among the Israelites was more justly entitled to this honour than Moses. He announced the word of God without any mixture of falsehood, and did not arrogate to himself more than his due, as Aaron seems to have done, ver. 2. (Haydock)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Faithful — Tried, trustworthy, and true. The root…
7. Faithful — Tried, trustworthy, and true. The root of the Hebrew word is amen. See Rev_3:14.
All mine house — The whole family of Israel, to the government of which Moses had been called. Baumgarten says that the house is “primarily his dwelling, the holy tent.” But in this sense the word “all” would be out of place. Moreover, after the consecration of Aaron the tabernacle was in his charge. The duties of Moses were not sacerdotal, but administrative and prophetic. Not to the priests, but to Moses and succeeding prophets, was intrusted the office of receiving and declaring the holy oracles which make wise unto salvation. The aggregate of believers in Jesus Christ are now God’s house. Heb_3:6.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. faithful in all my house] i.e. in everything…
7. faithful in all my house] i.e. in everything that has to do with Israel, who are often called the ‘house of Israel.’ The passage is referred to in Heb_3:2; Heb_3:5, where it is understood to mean that Moses was faithful in such a way that his influence (like that of a trusted servant) extended over the whole of the Old Dispensation, as that of Christ (the Son) does over the New.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) My servant Moses . . . —Better, Not…
(7) My servant Moses . . . —Better, Not so (in regard to) my servant Moses; he is faithful. Reference is made to these words in Heb_3:5 : “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house,” i.e., in the whole of the Mosaic economy or dispensation, or the house of Israel, which is spoken of as God’s house. A contrast is drawn in Num_12:6 between the vocation of Moses as a servant in the house of God and that of Christ as a Son over His own house.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain My servant Moses is not so. No words could…
My servant Moses is not so. No words could more clearly and sharply draw the distinction between Moses and the whole laudabilis numerus of the prophets. It is strange that, in the face of a statement so general and so emphatic, it should have been doubted whether it applied to such prophets as Isaiah or Daniel. It was exactly in "visions" and in "dreams," i.e., under the peculiar psychological conditions so-called, that these greatest of prophets received their revelations from heaven. The exceeding richness and wonder of some of these revelations did not alter the mode in which they were received, nor raise them out of the ordinary conditions of the gradus propheticus. As prophets of future things they were much greater than Moses, and their writings may be to us far more precious; but that does not concern the present question, which turns exclusively upon the relation between the Divine Giver and the human receiver of the revelation. If words mean anything, the assertion here is that Moses stood on an altogether different footing from the "prophet of the Lord" in respect of the communications which he received from the Lord. It is this essential superiority of position on the part of Moses which alone gives force and meaning to the important declarations of Deuteronomy Joh_1:21 Joh_6:14 Joh_7:40, Joh_18:15; &c. Moses had ;no successor in his relations with God until that Son of man came, who was "in heaven" all the time he walked and spake on earth. Who is faithful in all mine house, man with B means to be proved, or attested, and so established. (cf. 1Sa_3:20 1Sa_22:14) The Septuagint gives the true sense, en olw tw oikw mou pistov , and so it is quoted in the Epistle to the Hebrews. (Num_3:2) The "house" of God, as the adjective "whole" shows, is not the tabernacle, but the house of Israel; the" word "house" standing for household, family, nation, as so often in the sacred writings. (see Gen_46:27 Lev_10:6 Heb_3:6)
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