on to
another.

[27] See Antiq, B. XX. ch. 2. sect, 6. and Acts 11:28.

BOOK 4 FOOTNOTES

[1] Reland here takes notice, that although our Bibles say little
or nothing of these riches of Corah, yet that both the Jews and
Mahommedans, as well as Josephus, are full of it.

[2] It appears here, and from the Samaritan Pentateuch, and, in effect,
from the psalmist, as also from the Apostolical Constitutions, from
Clement's First Epistle to the Corinthians, from Ignatius's Epistle to
the Magnesians, and from Eusebius, that Corah was not swallowed up with
the Reubenites, but burned with the Levites of his own tribe. See Essay
on the Old Testament, p. 64, 65.

[3] Concerning these twelve rods of the twelve tribes of Israel, see St.
Clement's account, much larger than that in our Bibles, 1 Epist. sect.
45; as is Josephus's present account in measure larger also.

[4] Grotius, on Numbers 6:18, takes notice that the Greeks also, aswell
as the Jews, sometimes consecrated the hair of their heads to the gods.

[5] Josephus here uses this phrase, "when the fortieth year was
completed," for when it was begun; as does St. Luke when the day of
Pentecost was completed," Acts 2:1.

[6] Whether Miriam died, as Josephus's. Greek copies imply, on the first
day of the month, may be doubted, because the Latin copies say it was on
the tenth, and so say the Jewish calendars also, as Dr. Bernard assures
us. It is said her sepulcher is still extant near Petra, the old capital
city of Arabia Petraea, at this day; as also that of Aaron, not far off.

[7] What Josephus here remarks is well worth our remark in this place
also; viz. that the Israelites were never to meddle with the Moabites,
or Ammonites, or any other people, but those belonging to the land of
Canaan, and the countries of Sihon and Og beyond Jordan, as far as the
desert and Euphrates, and that therefore no other people had reason to
fear the conquests of the Israelites; but that those countries given
them by God were their proper and peculiar portion among the nations,
and that all who endeavored to dispossess them might ever be justly
destroyed by them.

[8] Note that Josephus never supposes Balaam to be an idolater, nor to
seek idolatrous enchantments, or to prophesy falsely, but to be no other
than an ill-disposed prophet of the true God; and intimates that God's
answer the second time, permitting him to go, was ironical, and on
design that he deceived [which sort