From Nave’s Topical Bible
Abib
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 8Passages listed
- 5Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Also called NISAN
- First month in the Jewish calendarExodus 12:2
- Passover instituted, and Israelites depart from Egypt inExodus 23:15Deuteronomy 16:1
- Tabernacle set up inExodus 40:2Exodus 40:17
- Israelites arrive at the wilderness of Zin inNumbers 20:1
- Enter Canaan inJoshua 4:19
- Jordan's overflow in1 Chronicles 12:15
The passages, in Bible order (8)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 12:2
“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Commentary on Exodus 12:22 voices
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months - It is supposed that God now changed the commencement of the Jewish year. The month to which this verse refers, the month Abib, answers to a part of our March and April; whereas it is supposed that previously to this the year began with Tisri, which answers to a part of our September; for in this month the Jews suppose God created the world, when the earth appeared at once with all its fruits in perfection.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
And we can also understand the same about this: "This month shall be to you the beginning of months"; although it is understood as the 7th in terms of time, because it spoke of the Lord's Passover, which is celebrated at the beginning of spring. Therefore, in this beginning of months, He made the heavens and the earth, which was fitting for the beginning of the world, where a suitable spring season was for everyone.
Ambrose of Milan· The Six Days of Creation 1.4.13, 397Patristic
- Exodus 23:15
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
Commentary on Exodus 23:151 voice
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 40:2
“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Commentary on Exodus 40:22 voices
The time for doing this is, On the first day of the first month - This wanted but fourteen days of a year since they came out of Egypt. Probably the work was made ready just at the end of the year, so that the appointing this day gave no delay. In Hezekiah's time they began to sanctify the temple on the first day of the first month, 2 Chron. xxix, 17.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Why did God command Moses to erect the tabernacle on the first day of the first month? Because at that time he created the world. The sprouting of the trees attests to this fact. For Scripture says, "Let the earth sprout forth grass for fodder, …
Theodoret of Cyrus· QUESTIONS ON EXODUS 72, 458Patristic
- Exodus 40:17
So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
Commentary on Exodus 40:172 voices
And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
On the first day of the month - That is, on the first of the month Nisan Exo 12:2; Exo 13:4, one year, wanting fourteen days, after the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. They had been nearly three months in reaching the foot of Mount Sinai Exo 19:1; Moses had spent eighty days on the mountain Exo 24:18; Exo 34:28, and some time must be allowed for what is related in Exo. 24, as well as for the interval between the two periods which Moses spent on the mountain Exo. 33:1-
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Numbers 20:1
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Commentary on Numbers 20:12 voices
Next comes "And the Lord shall shake the desert of Kadesh." This still refers to the spirit of piety. The account in Numbers carefully explains this reference when it tells how the people of Israel came to Kadesh and were suffering from excessive thirst because …
Cassiodorus· EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS 28:8, 585Patristic
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:12 voices
Observe the month of Abib,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The cardinal point on which the whole of the prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the concentration of the religious services of the people round one common sanctuary. The prohibition against observing the great Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacle, the three annual epochs in the sacred year of the Jew, at home and in private, is reiterated in a variety of words no less than six times in the first sixteen verses of this chapter Deu 16:2, Deu 16:6-7, Deu 16:11, Deu 16:15-
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Joshua 4:19
On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
Commentary on Joshua 4:192 voices
And the people came up out of Jordan,.... The channel of it, to the shore: on the tenth day of the first month; the month Nisan or Abib, which from the time of Israel's coming out of Egypt was appointed the first month of the year, Exo 12:2; on the fifteenth of which month they came out of Egypt, having kept the passover on the fourteenth at even; so that their coming out of Egypt, to their entrance into Canaan, was just forty years, wanting five days.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The first month - Namely, of Nisan, which wanted but five days of forty years from the time of their coming out of Egypt, which was on the fifteenth day of this month. So punctual is God in the performing of his word, whether promised or threatened.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 12:152 voices
These are they that went over Jordan in the first month,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
On the danger of the exploit, see the marginal reference note. This passage 1Ch 12:8-15 seems to be taken verbatim from an ancient source, the poetical expressions in 1Ch 12:8, 1Ch 12:14, being especially unlike the usual style of our author.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical