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title: "Geneva Study Bible -  Numbers 20"
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20:1 Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first {a} month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and {b} Miriam died there, and was buried there.
(a) This was forty years after their departure from Egypt.
(b) Moses and Aaron’s sister.

20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they {c} gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
(c) Another rebellion was in Rephidim [Exodus 17:1-16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/1-16), and this was in Kadesh.

20:8 Take the {d} rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
(d) With which you did miracles in Egypt and divided the sea.

20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; {e} must we fetch you water out of this rock?
(e) The punishment which followed declared that Moses and Aaron did not believe the Lord’s promise as it appeared in [Numbers 20:12](../../../kjv/numbers/20/12).

20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to {f} sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
(f) That the children of Israel should believe and acknowledge my power and so honour me.

20:13 This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he {h} was sanctified in them.
(h) By showing himself almighty and maintaining his glory.

20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of {i} Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
(i) Because Jacob or Israel was Esau’s brother, who was called Edom.

20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel {k} turned away from him.
(k) To pass by another way.

20:24 Aaron shall be {l} gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
(l) Read [Genesis 25:8](../../../kjv/genesis/25/8).

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