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THE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED (Numbers 5:1-4).
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Numbers 5:1-7
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-7
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Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10Numbers 5:1-10 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryThe camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater…The Unclean to Be Removed. (b. c. 1490.)Numbers 5:1-10 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTHE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED. (B. C. 1490.) Here is, I. A command for the purifying of the camp, by turning out from within its lines all those that were ceremonially unclean, by issues, leprosies, or the touch of dead bod…The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4Numbers 5:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE NECESSITY OF PUTTING AWAY SIN In this section we have, spiritually, the necessary sentence of banishment upon those defiled with sin, and the duty of separating them. Consider, therefore— I. THAT NO LEPER MIGHT STAY…The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4Numbers 5:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE EXPULSION AND RESTORATION OF THE UNCLEAN The host has now been marshaled. The several tribes have taken the places allotted to them in relation to the tabernacle and to one another. They are about to set forth on th…The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4Numbers 5:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE PUBLIC EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN This law, like many others, in part a sanitary law; but also educational in spiritual truth, and typical of eternal realities. Two truths taught:— I. THE HOLINESS OF GOD. This lesson,…The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4Numbers 5:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHINGS THAT DEFILE The book up to this point is occupied with the counting and discipline of the people, both those for war and those for tabernacle service. Now the cleansing of the camp is to be attended to. I. THE CL…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Unclean to Be Removed. (b. c. 1490.)THE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED. (B. C. 1490.) Here is, I. A command for the purifying of the camp, by turning out from within its lines all those that were ceremonially unclean, by issues, leprosies, or the touch of dead bod…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4THE PUBLIC EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN This law, like many others, in part a sanitary law; but also educational in spiritual truth, and typical of eternal realities. Two truths taught:— I. THE HOLINESS OF GOD. This lesson,…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4THINGS THAT DEFILE The book up to this point is occupied with the counting and discipline of the people, both those for war and those for tabernacle service. Now the cleansing of the camp is to be attended to. I. THE CL…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4THE NECESSITY OF PUTTING AWAY SIN In this section we have, spiritually, the necessary sentence of banishment upon those defiled with sin, and the duty of separating them. Consider, therefore— I. THAT NO LEPER MIGHT STAY…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:1-4THE EXPULSION AND RESTORATION OF THE UNCLEAN The host has now been marshaled. The several tribes have taken the places allotted to them in relation to the tabernacle and to one another. They are about to set forth on th…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:2Every leper. The law of the leper had been given in great detail in Leviticus 13:1-59 and Leviticus 14:1-57, and it had been already ordered that he should be put out of the camp (Le Leviticus 13:46, and cf. Leviticus 1…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:3That they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. Cleanliness, decency, and the anxious removal even of unwitting pollutions were things due to God himself, and part of the awful reverence to be paid to hi…Joseph S. Exell and contributors