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Numbers 17 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Numbers 17, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Numbers 17 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
מַטֶּה maṭṭeh H4294 17 branch, extending
מֹשֶׁה Môsheh H4872 17 Mosheh
אַהֲרוֹן ʼAhărôwn H175 12 Aharon
אֹהֶל ʼôhel H168 6 tent
דָבַר dâbar H1696 7 arrange, speak
מַחְתָּה machtâh H4289 4 pan
עֵדָה ʻêdâh H5712 5 assemblage, concourse

How preachers through history handled this text

6 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 17, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 3 Calvin 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“Enough had been done in the chapter before to quash all pretensions of the families of the tribe of Levi that would set up in competition with Aaron, and to make it appear that Aaron was the head of the tribe; but it seems, when that matter was settled, the princes of the rest of the tribes began to murmur. If the head of a tribe must be a priest, why not the head of some other tribe than that of Levi? …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy), on Numbers 17:1–30 (Public Domain)

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