Numbers 20:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

Numbers 20:27 —

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Aaron Consecration Hor Promotion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-29)

The chapter began with the funeral of Miriam, and it ends with the funeral of her brother Aaron. When death comes into a family, it often strikes double. Israel had not improved the former affliction they were under, by the death of the prophetess, and therefore, soon after, God took away their priest, to try if they would lay that to heart. This happened at the very next stage, when they removed…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

24-28. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people--In accordance with his recent doom, he, attired in the high priest’s costume, was commanded to ascend that mountain and die. But although the time of his death was hastened by the divine displeasure as a punishment for his sins, the manner of his death was arranged in tenderness of love, and to do him honor at the close of his earthly service. His as…