Numbers 17:8

the rod of Aaron: This fact was so unquestionably miraculous, that no doubt could remain on the minds of the people, or the envious chiefs, of the divine appointment of Aaron, and as there were buds, blossoms, and fruit on the rod at the same time, which was never the case with branches in the natural and ordinary course, this evidently proved the miracle, and took away all suspicion of the fraud which has been impiously suggested, that Moses had taken away Aaron's rod in the night time, and put a living branch of an almond tree in the room of it. A sceptre or staff of office resuming its vegetative life, was considered an absolute impossibility among the ancients; and as they were accustomed to swear by their sceptres, this circumstance was added to confirm the oath.

budded: Numbers 17:5, Genesis 40:10, Psalms 110:2, Psalms 132:17, Psalms 132:18, Song of Solomon 2:3, Isaiah 4:2, Ezekiel 17:24, Ezekiel 19:12, Ezekiel 19:14, John 15:1-Joshua :

Reciprocal: Exodus 37:20 - almonds Exodus 38:21 - tabernacle of testimony 2 Chronicles 24:6 - tabernacle Jeremiah 1:11 - I see a rod Ezekiel 7:10 - the rod Acts 7:44 - the tabernacle Hebrews 9:4 - and Aaron's