H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly pp. 89–90. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly pp. 87–89. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
Numbers 31 executes the previously commanded judgment on the Midianite group implicated in the Peor seduction. Moses himself connects the women’s role directly with Balaam’s counsel.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly p. 86. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
Numbers 30 regulates religious vows and self-binding oaths within Israel’s household structure. A permitted vow made to Yahweh is not casual speech: it must be fulfilled.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly pp. 84–85. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly p. 83. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
Before Israel enters the land, Numbers 28 orders the national sacrificial calendar: daily, weekly, monthly and annual worship. Time itself is disciplined around Yahweh’s appointed service.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly pp. 81–82. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, pp. 78–81. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
After the Peor plague, Yahweh orders a new military census. The first Numbers census prepared the generation leaving Sinai; this one prepares the generation standing on the plains of Moab to receive the inheritance.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly p. 78. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
What Balaam could not achieve by cursing Israel is achieved through seduction. At Shittim, Israelites enter sexual and religious compromise with Moabite women and become joined to Baal-peor.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly p. 77. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Primary source: H. P. Mansfield’s annotations in his HP Bible, HPB 03-Lev12-Num36.PDF, mainly pp. 75–76. The separately published Numbers Expositor is a distinct work and was used only as a secondary cross-check.
Numbers 23 records Balaam’s first two oracles. Balak changes ritual arrangements and viewpoints, but he cannot change Yahweh’s declared purpose. The curse repeatedly becomes blessing.
