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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 27:14
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For ye rebelled against my commandment the desert of Zin, etc.] Both Moses and Aaron, which was the reason why they were not suffered to go into the land of Canaan, but died a little before the children of Israel came into it: what their sin was, called here a rebelling against the commandment of the Lord; (see Gill on “<042012>Numbers 20:12”), and is next suggested: in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me before their eyes; when the congregation of Israel strove against the Lord for want of water, they did not sanctify the Lord by believing in him; but expressed some degree of diffidence before the congregation about fetching water out of the rock, or questioning whether the Lord would give it to such a rebellious people, though they had his order for it: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; so called to distinguish it from another Meribah, or water of strife, at Rephidim, (<021707>Exodus 17:7 <053251>Deuteronomy 32:51).
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