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Selected Verse: Numbers 27:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 27:16 |
King James |
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation--The request was most suitably made to God in this character, as the Author of all the intellectual gifts and moral graces with which men are endowed, and who can raise up qualified persons for the most arduous duties and the most difficult situations. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The God of the spirits of all flesh - An acknowledgment that man, who is but flesh (compare Gen 6:3), is of himself helpless; and "lives and moves and has his being" in God Act 17:28. The words are suitably employed here to introduce an entreaty that God would not leave the congregation without a guide and leader, and in Num 16:22 as a preface to an intercession that the whole people should not suffer for the sin of a, few. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The Lord of the spirits of all flesh - God of all men: the searcher of spirits, that knowest who is fit for this great employment; the father and giver and governor of spirits, who canst raise and suit the spirits of men to the highest and hardest works. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh - See the notes on Num 16:22. |
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?