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A Sacred Instrument
Commentators explain that the rod Moses retrieved was not just any staff. It was taken "from before the Lord," meaning it was a sacred object kept in the sanctuary. This detail emphasizes that the power for the upcoming miracle resided not in Moses, but in God, whose authority the rod symbolized.
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John Gill
On Numbers 20:9
17th Century
Pastor
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord .
&c.] Which was laid up somewhere in the sanctuary, as well as the rod …
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 20:1–13
17th Century
Minister
After thirty-eight years of a tiresome stay in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congr…