Numbers 16:11

11 You and your followers have joined together against the Lord. Your complaint is not against Aaron."

Numbers 16:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:11

For which cause, both [thou] and all thy company [are]
gathered together against the Lord
For gathering together against his ministers, whom he had put into office to act under him, and endeavouring to overturn a constitution of his erecting, and resisting and not submitting to an ordinance of his, is interpreted gathering against him, and acting in opposition to him; see ( Romans 13:1 Romans 13:2 ) ;

and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
what is his transgression? what has he done? as Aben Ezra paraphrases it; he is not chargeable with any fault, he did not take upon him the office of high priest of himself, God called him to it, and put him in it; he is only his minister, and by no means to be blamed, and therefore it is unreasonable to envy him, or murmur against him; and, indeed, murmuring against him is murmuring against the Lord.

Numbers 16:11 In-Context

9 The God of Israel has sep-arated you from the rest of the Israelites. He brought you near to himself to do the work in the Lord's Holy Tent and to stand before all the Israelites and serve them. Isn't that enough?
10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to himself, yet now you want to be priests.
11 You and your followers have joined together against the Lord. Your complaint is not against Aaron."
12 Then Moses called Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!
13 You have brought us out of a fertile land to this desert to kill us, and now you want to order us around.
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