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Numbers 15:32 KJV
Numbers · chapter 15 · verse 32
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.Numbers 15:32 · King James Version
Numbers 15:32 in context
30But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- gatheredqâshashto forage for straw, stubble or woodH7197 →
- sabbathshabbâthintermission, i.e the SabbathH7676 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sticksʻêtsa treeH6086 →
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Here is, I. The general doom passed upon presumptuous sinners. 1. Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners that sin with a high hand, as the original phrase is (Num 15:30), that is, that avowedly confront God's authority, and set up their own lust in competition with it, that sin for sinning-sake, in…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 30-36