MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK. And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. Numb. xx. 1-13; 1 Cor. x. 1-4. Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire ... but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, of the new covenant. and to Jesus the mediator Exodus xix.; Hebrews xii. 18-29. "I shall see Him, but not now; I shall behold Him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel." Numbers xxii. -xxiv. Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising; that the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live. Deuteronomy iv. 41, 42. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, "Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." Joshua vil. |