3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
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And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Observe here, 1. That Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. David in his time did it without a command, and paid dearly for it. God was Israel’s king, and he would not have this act of authority done but by his express orders. Moses, perhaps, by this time, had heard of the blessing with which Balaam was constrained, sorely against his will, to bless Israel, and particularly t…
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