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Numbers 19 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Numbers 19, 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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Numbers 19 in the Hebrew

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

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ H2930 18 foul
מַיִם mayim H4325 11 water, juice
נָגַע nâgaʻ H5060 7 touch, lay the hand upon
נִדָּה niddâh H5079 5 rejection, impurity
עֶרֶב ʻereb H6153 6 dusk
כָּבַס kâbaç H3526 5 trample, wash
פָּרָה pârâh H6510 5 heifer

How preachers through history handled this text

6 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 19, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 3 Calvin 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolish it, as the gospel does, by bringing life and immortality to light, and so introducing a better hope. As the ashes of the heifer signified the merit of Christ, so the running water signified the power and grace of the blessed Spirit, who is compared to rivers of living water; …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Numbers 19:11–30 (Public Domain)

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