6 NUMBERS XX, Marie] Hehr. Mirjam ; in Greeke , Mariam: the was litter to Mofes and Aaron, and a Prophet- telfe, by whom God guided the Ifraelites in their travels , as it is written , Ifent before thee, Mofs, Aaron, and A1arie, Mic.6.4. Of her, fee Exod. 15. 20. Numb. i2. In this fourtieth yeare of Ifraels travell , God tooke from them by death , Marie their Propheteffe, in the firlt moncth 5 Aaron their Pried, in the fift month, Numb.33.38. and Moles their King in the end of the yeare , Deut. 1.3. and 34.5. When thefe three min liters of the Law were deceafed, Iefus the forme of Nun (a fi- gure of Iefus the bonne of God) bringeth them into the promiled land,Iof.1 .r .2. &c. loafter the abrogating of the Law, our Lord Iefus Chrift bringeth us into the kingdome of Cod, Mar.1. 15. Rom.7.4.5,6. Dan.9.24. 2 Vert-. 2. there was ne water ] In the firft yeare, when they were come out of Egypt to Rephidim in the ivilderneffe, they wanted water,Exod. 17, and in this lad, the fortieth yeare they wanted water againe : here God tried the children,as hee had done the Fathers , and they alto rebelled a- gaind him. And many things were like in both places. That Rephidini was the tenth encamping place or ftation from Egypt : this in Kadeswas the tenth encamping place before they entred Canaan,as by their rehearfall of their journies in Numb.3i.is to be feene.There the people in their third, in dead of praying unto God,cont ended with ¡Mojs, and murmured for that bee had brought them net of Egypt, Exod. 17.2.3. here they doe the fame,verfe 3.4. There Moles cried unto the Lord for the outrage of the people Exod.17.4. here Mofes & Aaron fall downe before the Lord,ver.6 There God promiCed and gave them water out of the Rock,Exod. 17.6. herehe doth likewife, v.8. There God willed Moles to take his rod: here al Co hee'commandeth him , Take the rod. There the Lord prom iCed to Hand before Moles,Exod.17.6. here his glory appeareth unto him and Aaron, v.6.There Mofes by commandement inciting the Rock with his rod,waters came out of it: here he muting the Rock without commandement, wa- ters came out. There the place was named Meri- bah or Contention, Exod. 17.7. here the place is na- wed Meribah, ver. 13. That was the peoples fixt rebellion, after they were come out of Egypt, as is noted on Num.' 4.22.this was their fixt rebel lion after they were come from mount Sinai,(if we except the private murmuring of Marie. and Aaron againft Mofes, Nutn. i 2.) For the firft was at7aberals, Num.i i.1.3. the next at Kibrotb batta- avab, NUm.11.24. then in thewilderneffe of Pha- ran, Numb. i 4.1.2. after that followed the rebel- , lion of Korah and his company,Num.16. and af- ter it,ofal the c6gregation,for the death of thole rebels, Nup1.1 6.4r now the fixt is in Kadefh. 3 Vert 3. contended] abode with bitter and re- proachfull words, which the Greeke tranflateth, reviled : fee Exod: r 7.2. And oh] or, And would God. The word And, fheweth the pailon of mind, out of which they fpake abruptly fee Ithe notes on Ge11.27.28, and Num.' 1.29. we had given up the glwfi] in Chaldee, wee had died : in Greeke, we had perifbed in the perdition of our brethren, before the Lord: whereby they fecnte fpecially to meane the peltilence ( thelait plague wherewith their brethren died, Numb. 16.49.) which pelt, above other judgements, conuneth molt immedi- ately from the hand of God as David acknow- ledgeth, 2. Sant. 24. 14. t 5. And this evill they wifhed,as being eafier than to perifh with hunger or third: as the Prophet alfocomplaincth, They that be fain with the fwerd, are better than they that bee Elaine with hunger : for thef pint away, pick?: the - row for the fruits if the field, Lam.4.9. Wherefore they here ufe the wordgsvingup (or breathing out) the ghofi ; which feemeth to meane a atoreealle kind of death, than that which is by force of fword, or by hunger, or thirft, or other like vio- lent nteanes. So the Hebrewes explaine,giving up theghofi, to be a death without paine or long fick- nelfe. Vert 4, to die there] underhand, that wee fsould die there with third; the Córeeke tranflateth , to kill au and our obildren,which words they fpake in Exo- dus 11.3. Vert. S. offeed] to low feed in, or to plant fig- 5 trees, vines, &c. for the wilderneffe was alandof defarts and of pits, a land of drought , and of the fbadotr of death, a land that no man paid thorow , and where no man dwelt, Ier.2.. 6. Otherwile had there beene commodioulneffe of place, the Ifraelitesmight have fowen and reaped , planted and gathered fruits in thole 38.yeares,whichthey abode there- in, Deut.2.14. Verf.6. from theprefeenee]or,t9om the face,for feare 6 of them, añd becaufe of their outrage: fo in Revel.' 2.n 4. Pfal. 3.1. fell on their facer] in prayer unto God , whole glory dwelled in that San&uary : fo in Exod. 17.4. Mofee, cryeduntothe LORD. See Numb. x6.4.45 appeared] in the éloud,as Num. t 2.5. a ligne that hee heard their prayer, and would fave them : fee Num.14. n o. and 16.19.42. 4 Verf.8. Take the rod] in Greeke, 7aketby rod : 8 fo God fpake before, in Exodus 17.5. but here, fome gather from vet* 9. that it was the rod of Aaronwhich had budded and was laid up before the ?efiimony, Num. 17.10. Chazkuni faith, This was Aarons rod, for loe it is here written (in verfe 9.) And Mofes Cooke the rodfrom before the L 0 RD, and this was the rod of Aaron, ex it is written (in Numb. 17.10.) Bring Aarons rod againe before the Tefümo- nie, to be kept for a fagne againfi the inner of rebellion : and forafmuch at Aarons rod was sr againf the fanner of rebellion, hereupon Mofes Laid (in verfe 1o.) Heare nowyee rebels. Howbeit Moles rod (which is alle called the rod of God, Exodus 4. au, and 17.9.) might be kept alto in the San&uary : and after in verfe l r, it is Paid , Moles Emote the Rocke with bit rod. fpealvee mho the Rocke] Hee faith not , finite the Roclge : yet in verfe 11. Mores fmote the Roche; and in verfe r o. he fpake to the people; but it is not Paid that he fpake to the rocke, as here hee was commanded. Some others thinke, that Gods intendment in bidding him, Take
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