Numbers 17:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.

Whom i

Numbers 16:5

Blossom

I will

They murmur

Numbers 16:11

General references

Deuteronomy 18:5

Bible References

Whom i

And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.

Blossom

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

I will

And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.

And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

They murmur

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

General references

For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.