...loses temper, and speaks unadvisedly with his lips, when the people chide with him for want of water ; "Hear now ye rebels ? must we fetch you water out of this rock" ? He takes glory to himself, instead of ascribing ft to God : " Must we fetch you water"? He presumtuously...

...him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear, now, ye rebels : must we fetch you water out of this rock ? And Moses lift up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice : and the water came out abun. dantly,...

...commanded to smite the rock, that water might come forth. In anger he smote it twice, thus upbraiding the people : " Hear now,, ye rebels ; must we fetch you water out " of this rock ?" He showed not that affiance in God, that disposition to glorify him before his people, which became...

...him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, ointed the courses of the priests and the Lévites after ? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice : and the water came out...

...want of water, Moses took the rod, by the divine direction, and said, in too great heat of temper," Hear now, ye rebels ; must we fetch you water out of this rock ? And Moses lift up his hand, and »Psal. csxxriii. 7. * Gen. x!ix. 5 — 7. ' Num. xii. 8. with his rod...

...waving his rod over it, and addressing a few words to it ; but he is in such a passion, that he says to the people, " Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock ?" and thus flaying, he smote the rock twice with his rod, more like an harlequin or a fairy. For this last...

...this only under a combination of momentary annoyance and thoughtlessness) as the first operator : " Hear now, ye rebels ; must we fetch you water out of this rock ?" And, probably, he said and did other things that made this temporary presumption evident and unequivocal....

...commanded to smite the rock, that water might come forth. In anger he smote it twice, thus upbraiding the people : ' Hear now, ye rebels ; must we fetch you water out of this rock ?' He showed not that affiance in God, that disposition to glorify him before his people, which became...

...cattle should die there ? Unhappily, this provoked Moses to speak unadvisedly with his lips ; laying, Hear now, ye rebels ; must we fetch you water out of this rock ? This was answering folly in a foolish manner, which he should not have done ; and by which the servant...

...speaking mildly, he showed a little selfishness, and to bring out water he smote the rock, " saying, hear now ye rebels, must we fetch you water out of this rock. Although the Lord, to favour the people, caused the water to flow, still what an offence it was to...