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Numbers 27:17 KJV
Numbers · chapter 27 · verse 17
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; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.Numbers 27:17 · King James Version
Numbers 27:17 in context
15And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
17Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
19And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- congregationʻêdâha stated assemblageH5712 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- sheeptsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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 obtained, he begged earnestly that the work of God might be carried on, though he might not have the honour of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23