Numberi 17:12

12 Toen spraken de kinderen Israels tot Mozes, zeggende: Zie, wij geven den geest, wij vergaan, wij allen vergaan!

Numberi 17:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 17:12

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses
The princes of the tribes, who had seen the miracle of the rod, and knew that it was laid up in the most holy place, and for what purpose, which gave them a sensible concern: these, and as many as were acquainted with it, addressed Moses upon it, as follows:

saying, behold, we die, we perish, we all perish;
which being expressed without the copulative, and in different words, show that they were spoken quick and in haste, and discover the passion of mind and distress they were in, and the sense they had of their sin and danger, fearing they should all die and perish, as many had already; it has respect, as some think, to punishments past and future, so the Targum of Jonathan,

``some of us have been consumed by flaming fire, and others of us have been swallowed up in the earth and are lost, and, lo, we are accounted as if all of us would perish.''

Numberi 17:12 In-Context

10 Toen zeide de HEERE tot Mozes: Breng de staf van Aaron weder voor de getuigenis, in bewaring, tot een teken voor de wederspannige kinderen; alzo zult gij een einde maken van hun murmureringen tegen Mij, dat zij niet sterven.

11 En Mozes deed het; gelijk als de HEERE hem geboden had, alzo deed hij.

12 Toen spraken de kinderen Israels tot Mozes, zeggende: Zie, wij geven den geest, wij vergaan, wij allen vergaan!

13 Al wie enigzins nadert tot den tabernakel des HEEREN, zal sterven; zullen wij dan den geest gevende verdaan worden?