Num 14:5, 16:4, 21-22, 45, Deu 9:18, Jos 7:6, 1Ch 21:16, Ezr 9:5 | TSK

I fell down.The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses. Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.

9; Ex 32:10-14; 34:28; 2Sa 12:16; Ps 106:23

‏ Joshua 7:6

rent.

Ge 37:29,34; Nu 14:6; 2Sa 13:31; Ezr 9:3-5; Es 4:1; Job 1:20

Ac 14:14

fell.

Nu 16:22,45; 2Sa 12:16

until the eventide.

Jud 20:23,26; 21:2; 2Sa 1:12

put dust.Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, throwing dust upon the head, and falling prostrate, were usual signs of deep affliction and distress among the ancient Israelites. In illustration of this custom, see 1 Sa 4:12, when the messenger brought tidings to Eli of the discomfiture of the armies of Israel by the Philistines; again, in the case of Tamar, 2 Sa 13:19, and in Ne 9:1, when a whole nation, "assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them." See also the case of Mordecai, Es 4:1, and Job 2:12, where his friends abased themselves to comfort him; refer also to Eze 27:30. Jon 3:6. Mic 1:10. In each of these instances it is worthy of remark, that putting dust on the head generally follows rending of the clothes, and was the usual mode of evincing poignant sorrow.

‏ 1 Chronicles 21:16

saw the angel.

Ge 3:24; Ex 14:19,20; Nu 22:31; Jos 5:13,14; 2Ki 6:17

clothed.

1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 19:1; Ps 35:13,14; Jon 3:6-8

fell upon.

Nu 14:5; 16:22

‏ Ezra 9:5

heaviness. or, affliction. I fell.

2Ch 6:13; Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41; Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14

spread.

Ex 9:29,33; 1Ki 8:22,38,54; Ps 141:2; 143:6; Isa 1:15