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Numbers 27:16

Numbers 27:16
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in,.... Which may lead them out, and go before them in war, and command them in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The God of the spirits of all flesh - An acknowledgment that man, who is but flesh (compare Gen 6:3), is of himself helpless; and “lives and moves and has his being” in God Act 17:28. The words are…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Numbers 27:15-23

Here, I. Moses prays for a successor. When God had told him that he must die, though it appears elsewhere that he solicited for a reprieve for himself (Deu 3:24, Deu 3:25), yet, when this could not be…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the God of the spirits of all flesh See on Num 16:22.