Numbers 20:28 (BSB)

After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

From Numbers 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 20:28

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 20:22-29: The chapter began with the funeral of Miriam, and it ends with the funeral of her brother Aaron. When death comes into a family, it often strikes double. Israel had not improved the former affliction they were under, by the death of the prophetess, and therefore, soon after, God took away their priest, to try if they would lay that to heart.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 20:28: And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead,.... Not that they saw his dead body, but they perceived by the relation of Moses, and by various circumstances, as not seeing Aaron come down, whom they saw go up, and seeing Eleazar with Aaron's garments on him, and perhaps by tokens of mourning in Moses and Eleazar; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 20:28: Aaron died there in the top of the mount--(See on Deu 10:6). A tomb has been erected upon or close by the spot where he was buried.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 20:27-29: Num 20:27-29 Moses executed this command, and Aaron died upon the top of the mountain, according to Num 33:37-38, on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Exodus from Egypt, at the age of 123 years (which agrees with Exo 7:7), and was mourned by all Israel for thirty days.