29And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. …
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
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…
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