Numbers - 12:7



7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 12:7.

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But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:
Not so my servant Moses: he is faithful in all my house.
not so My servant Moses; in all My house he is stedfast;
My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:
My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house;
Non sic servus meus Moses, qui in tota domo mea fidelis est.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Moses - is faithful - נאמן neeman, a prefect or superintendent. So Samuel is termed, 1-Samuel 2:35; 1-Samuel 3:20; David is so called, 1-Samuel 18:27, Neeman, and son-in-law of the king. Job 12:20, speaks of the Neemanim as a name of dignity. It seems also to have been a title of respect given to ambassadors, Proverbs 13:17; Proverbs 25:13. Calmet well observes that the word fidelity is often used for an employ, office, or dignity, and refers to 1-Chronicles 9:22, 1-Chronicles 9:26, 1-Chronicles 9:31; 2-Chronicles 31:12, 2-Chronicles 31:15; 2-Chronicles 34:12, etc. Moses was a faithful, well-tried servant in the house of God, and therefore he uses him as a familiar, and puts confidence in him.

My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful (d) in all mine house.
(d) In all Israel which was his Church.

My servant Moses is not so,.... Or such a prophet; he is not so used; it was not in such a manner the Lord spake to him; not in visions and dreams, as he had to Abraham and Jacob, and did to others in later times:
who is faithful in all mine house; in the house of Israel, or among that people which were the Lord's family, where Moses was a servant and steward, and did all things according to the will of the Lord, the master of the family; he faithfully delivered to them all the laws, statutes, and ordinances, which he appointed to be observed by them: unless this is to be understood of the tabernacle, which was the house of God, in which he dwelt, and which was made, and all things in it, exactly according to the pattern given by the Lord to Moses: see Hebrews 3:2.

In all my house - That is, whom I have set over all my house, my church and people, and therefore over you; and who hath discharged his office faithfully, and not partially as you falsely accuse him.

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