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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they fell: Numbers 16:4, Numbers 16:45, Numbers 14:5

the God: Numbers 27:16, Job 12:10, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Isaiah 57:16, Zechariah 12:1, Hebrews 12:9

one man sin: Genesis 18:23-25, Genesis 18:32, Joshua 7:1-26, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:17, Romans 5:18, 1 Corinthians 13:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:7 - a living Genesis 17:3 - General Genesis 17:17 - fell Exodus 32:10 - let me alone Exodus 32:11 - why doth Leviticus 9:24 - they shouted Leviticus 10:6 - lest wrath Numbers 20:6 - they fell Joshua 5:14 - fell on his Joshua 7:6 - fell Joshua 22:18 - he will be 1 Samuel 8:6 - prayed 1 Chronicles 21:16 - fell upon 2 Chronicles 7:3 - they bowed Job 42:10 - when Psalms 99:6 - they called Jeremiah 32:27 - God Jeremiah 38:16 - that made Ezekiel 9:8 - that I Ezekiel 13:5 - have not Ezekiel 18:4 - all souls Matthew 26:39 - and fell Luke 11:40 - did Luke 24:39 - for Acts 17:25 - seeing Ephesians 4:6 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they fell upon their faces,.... That is, Moses and Aaron, in order to deprecate the wrath of God, and beseech him to avert the threatened judgment; and so the Targum of Jonathan has it,

"they bowed themselves in prayer upon their faces;''

and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh; the Maker of all men, as of their bodies, which are flesh, so of their souls or spirits, which are immaterial and immortal; hence he is called "the Father of spirits", Hebrews 12:9, who, as the Targum, puts the spirit in the bodies of men; or, as others, who knows the spirits of men; their thoughts, as Jarchi, the inward frames and dispositions of their minds; who knows who have sinned, and who not; and whether their sins proceed from weakness, and being misled, or whether from a malevolent disposition, presumption, and self-will:

shall one man sin: meaning Korah, who was the ringleader:

and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? who, through ignorance and weakness, and by artifice and imposition, are drawn in to join with him; the plea is much the same with that of Abraham,

Genesis 18:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 16:22. O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh — אל אלהי הרוחת לכל בשר El Elohey haruchoth lechol basar. This address sufficiently proves that these holy men believed that man is a being compounded of flesh and spirit, and that these principles are perfectly distinct. Either the materiality of the human soul is a human fable, or, if it be a true doctrine, these men did not pray under the influence of the Divine Spirit. In Numbers 27:16 there is a similar form of expression: Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh. And in Job 12:10: In whose hand is the soul (נפש nephesh) of all living; and the spirit (רוח ruach) of all flesh of man. Are not these decisive proofs that the Old Testament teaches that there is an immortal spirit in man? "But does not רוח ruach signify wind or breath?" Sometimes it does, but certainly not here; for how absurd would it be to say, O God, the God of the breaths of all flesh!