Numbers 16:11

11 It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”

Numbers 16:11 in Other Translations

KJV
11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
ESV
11 Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
NLT
11 The LORD is the one you and your followers are really revolting against! For who is Aaron that you are complaining about him?”
MSG
11 It's God you've ganged up against, not us. What do you have against Aaron that you're bad-mouthing him?"
CSB
11 Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the Lord! As for Aaron, who is he that you should complain about him?"

Numbers 16:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:11

For which cause, both [thou] and all thy company [are]
gathered together against the Lord
For gathering together against his ministers, whom he had put into office to act under him, and endeavouring to overturn a constitution of his erecting, and resisting and not submitting to an ordinance of his, is interpreted gathering against him, and acting in opposition to him; see ( Romans 13:1 Romans 13:2 ) ;

and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
what is his transgression? what has he done? as Aben Ezra paraphrases it; he is not chargeable with any fault, he did not take upon him the office of high priest of himself, God called him to it, and put him in it; he is only his minister, and by no means to be blamed, and therefore it is unreasonable to envy him, or murmur against him; and, indeed, murmuring against him is murmuring against the Lord.

Numbers 16:11 In-Context

9 Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the LORD’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?
10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.
11 It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”
12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!
13 Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!

Cross References 2

  • 1. ver 41; 1 Corinthians 10:10
  • 2. S Exodus 16:7
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