Numbers 10:31
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when the ark set forward,.... Carried by the Kohathites, Num 10:21,
that Moses said; in prayer, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem express it; and it was a prayer of…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Thou mayest be to us instead of eyes - A proverbial expression still in use in the East. Hobab would indicate the spots where water, fuel, and pasture might be found, or warn them of the dangers from…
Here is, I. An account of what passed between Moses and Hobab, now upon this advance which the camp of Israel made towards Canaan. Some think that Hobab was the same with Jethro, Moses's…
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