Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”
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Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”
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For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
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Therefore thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the LORD —; and as to Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?'
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Passages linked to Numbers 16:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 16:7-8 In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?” Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
- Exodus 17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
- Numbers 16:3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
- 1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
- 1 Samuel 8:7 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
- Luke 10:16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
- John 13:20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
- Acts 5:4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
- Romans 13:2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10 Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 16:11 For which cause [both] thou and all…
Num 16:11 For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are] gathered together against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
Ver. 11. And what is Aaron?] q.d., Is it not God whom ye wound through Aaron’s sides? "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" {Act 9:4}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Against the Lord, whoso minister and chosen servant Aaron…
Against the Lord, whoso minister and chosen servant Aaron is. You strike at God through Aaron’s sides. Compare 1Sa 8:7; Luk 10:16; Joh 13:20.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For which cause, both thou and all thy company…
For which cause, both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord,.... For gathering together against his ministers, whom he had put into office to act under him, and endeavouring to overturn a constitution of his erecting, and resisting and not submitting to an ordinance of his, is interpreted gathering against him, and acting in opposition to him; see Rom 13:1,
and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him? what is his transgression? what has he done? as Aben Ezra paraphrases it; he is not chargeable with any fault, he did not take upon him the office of high priest of himself, God called him to it, and put him in it; he is only his minister, and by no means to be blamed, and therefore it is unreasonable to envy him, or murmur against him; and, indeed, murmuring against him is murmuring against the Lord.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Against the Lord - Whose chosen servant Aaron is.…
Against the Lord - Whose chosen servant Aaron is. You strike at God through Aaron's sides.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The words of Moses in his wrath are broken.…
The words of Moses in his wrath are broken. The Aaronic priesthood was of divine appointment; and thus in rejecting it, the conspirators were really rebelling against God.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Him. The injury is offered to God, who made…
Him. The injury is offered to God, who made choice of Aaron freely.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Against the Lord — To resist divinely constituted…
11. Against the Lord — To resist divinely constituted authority is to resist the Lord. Rom_13:2, note.
What is Aaron — Doubtless Moses had been accused of nepotism in selecting the priestly family. The question implies that Aaron was blameless.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. and Aaron, what is he &c.] i.e. What…
11. and Aaron, what is he &c.] i.e. What has he done to cause your murmuring? God, and not Aaron, is responsible for the superiority in which the priests stand to the Levites; cf. Exo_16:8 b.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For which cause both thou and all thy company…
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together. It does not follow that Korah was seeking an exclusive dignity for himself; or for his tribe. His "company" apparently included representative men from all the tribes, or at least from many (see on verse 2). They were seeking the priesthood because they affirmed it to be the common possession of all Israelites. Against the Lord. It was in his name that they appeared, and to some extent no doubt sincerely; but since they appeared to dispute an ordinance actually and historically made by God himself, it was indeed against him that they were gathered. And what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him? The construction is broken, as so often when we have the ipsissima verba of Moses, whose meekness did not enable him to speak calmly under provocation. The sentence runs, "For which cause thou and all thy company who arc gathered against the Lord, and Aaron, who is he, that ye murmur against him?" It was easy to represent the position of Aaron in an invidious light, as though they were assailing some personal sacerdotal pretensions; but in truth he was only a poor servant of God doing what he was bid.
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