The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XX.

[World 2553] [Moses 120] [Redemption from Egypt. 40] ISRAEL is now come to Kadesh Barnea again; an unhappy place, for there they had been eight and thirty years ago, and received the doom of not entring into the land: and the same doom falleth upon Moses and Aaron there now, It is said, They came into the desert of Zin to Kadesh in the first moneth, but nameth not the year; for it referreth to the decree made in that very place of forty years wandering, and this is the first month of the fortieth year, and so Numb. 33. 8. and Deut. 2. 7, 14. make it undoubted. Miriam dieth at Kadesh, and is buried there, being a great deal above 120 years old.

The people murmur here now for water, as they had done here before about the land; and the Holy Ghost by a most strange word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,

most sweetly sheweth their confusedness. They had lain here a whole twelve-month at their being here before, but then no want of water, for the rock or the waters of Horeb had followed them hither, but how [World 2553] [Moses 120] [Redemption from Egypt. 40] that was now departed is not expressed.

Moses and Aaron are excluded Canaan for not believing the Lord, and not sanctifying him before the people; their particular fault is diversly guessed at, it seemeth to me that it was this; What say they, ye rebels, must we bring water out of this rock, as we did out of Horeb? Is all our hopes and expectation of getting out of the wilderness come to this? We never fetched you water out of a rock but once, and that was because ye were to stay a long time in the wilderness, and that was to serve you all the while, as we have seen it did by experience. Now that water is gone, and must we now fetch you water out of another rock? O ye rebels, have you brought it to this by your murmuring, that we must have a new stay in the wilderness, and a new rock opened to yield you water for your long stay as Horeb did? Are we to begin our abode in the wilderness anew now when we hoped that our travel had been ended; and so we shall never get out? And so he smote the rock twice in a fume and anger. And thus they believed not the promise of entring the land after forty years; and thus they sanctified not the Lord in the sight of the people to incourage them in the Promise, but damped them in it; and thus they spake unadvisedly in their lips, and so they were excluded Canaan. It was a sign that the Promise aimed at better things then the earthly Canaan, when the holiest persons in all Israel are debarred from coming thither from Kadesh Barnea, they turn back toward the Red-sea again, as they had done before, Deut. 1. 40. because Edom would not now give them passage.

Aaron dieth in Horhagidgad the first day of the fifth month, and is la∣mented all that month.