Numbers 27:14
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
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Gill's Exposition
And Moses spake unto the Lord,.... Having requested to go into the land and see it, which was denied him; and perceiving he must quickly die, and being a man of a public spirit, and concerned for the…
Here, 1. God tells Moses of his fault, his speaking unadvisedly with his lips at the waters of strife, where he did not express, so carefully as he ought to have done, a regard to the honour both of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
because ye acted unfaithfully against my word The verb is characteristic of P. It is different from that in Num 20:24. And see note on Num 20:10-11.
in the strife … to sanctify me The same play on the…
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