Numbers 17:5 (BSB)

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

From Numbers 17. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 17:5

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 17:5: 5. And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod. Aaron, indeed, had been previously chosen; but the expression here refers to his manifestation; Fr., “A la seconde declaration.” because God is said again to choose those, whom He has chosen by His secret counsel, when He brings them forth into the sight of men with their peculiar marks of distinction; and this not...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 17:1-7: Here we have, I. Orders given for the bringing in of a rod for every tribe (which was peculiarly significant, for the word here used for a rod sometimes signifies a tribe, as particularly Num 34:13), that God by a miracle, wrought on purpose, might make it known on whom he had conferred the honour of the priesthood. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 17:5: And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod whom I shall choose,.... Or make it manifest that he had chosen him, and so confirm the choice he had made of him and his family, for the priesthood to be and continue in: shall blossom; bud and blossom, and yield fruit, as it afterwards did, which is here declared beforehand, that the miracle might...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 17:5: And it shall come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. (b) To be the chief priest.