(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Numbers 17:1–7, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod. And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. 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. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.”
The Lord knew that it was time for another miraculous demonstration of His authority. He had chosen Moses to lead Israel and refused to let other people hijack the nation, that He had chosen to be the apple of His eye (Deut 32:10, “He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.”) The Lord knew that Moses was the best leader available at that time and was determined to bring Israel through their wilderness experience in spite of their tendency to rebel against His authority. The Lord devised a way that would demonstrate, once and for all, that Moses and Aaron were His chosen leaders. He told Aaron and a leader from each of the other tribes to take their walking stick and write their name on it. They were to leave their walking sticks in the Tabernacle and see what happened.
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