Numbers 14:1
_AND ALL THE CONGREGATION LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND CRIED; AND THE PEOPLE WEPT THAT NIGHT._ All the congregation lifted up their voice - not literally the whole, because there were some exceptions.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE CONGREGATION LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND CRIED; AND THE PEOPLE WEPT THAT NIGHT._ All the congregation lifted up their voice - not literally the whole, because there were some exceptions.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST AARON: AND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION SAID UNTO THEM, WOULD GOD THAT WE HAD DIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT! OR WOULD GOD WE HAD DIED IN THIS WILDERNESS!_ Would God that we had died. Such insolence to their generous leaders, and such base ing... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN MOSES AND AARON FELL ON THEIR FACES BEFORE ALL THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ Moses and Aaron fell on their faces - as humble and earnest suppliants, either to the people, entreating them to desist from so perverse a design, or rather to God, as the usual and onl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, AND CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, WHICH WERE OF THEM THAT SEARCHED THE LAND, RENT THEIR CLOTHES:_ Joshua ... and Caleb. The two honest spies testified their grief and horror, in the strongest manner, at the mutiny against Moses and the blasphemy against God; while at the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SPAKE UNTO ALL THE COMPANY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THE LAND, WHICH WE PASSED THROUGH TO SEARCH IT, IS AN EXCEEDING GOOD LAND._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF THE LORD DELIGHT IN US, THEN HE WILL BRING US INTO THIS LAND, AND GIVE IT US; A LAND WHICH FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY._ A land which floweth with milk and honey - a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country; but the two articles specified were among the principal products o... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY REBEL NOT YE AGAINST THE LORD, NEITHER FEAR YE THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND; FOR THEY ARE BREAD FOR US: THEIR DEFENCE IS DEPARTED FROM THEM, AND THE LORD IS WITH US: FEAR THEM NOT._ Their defense is departed, х_ CAAR_ (H5493) _ TSILAAM_ (H6738)] - their shadow is turned, is departed. The departing... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ALL THE CONGREGATION BADE STONE THEM WITH STONES. AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD APPEARED IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION BEFORE ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ The glory of the Lord appeared. It was seasonably manifested on this great emergency, to rescue His ambassadors from their perilous sit... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, HOW LONG WILL THIS PEOPLE PROVOKE ME? AND HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THEY BELIEVE ME, FOR ALL THE SIGNS WHICH I HAVE SHEWED AMONG THEM?_ The Lord said ... I will smite - not a final decree, but a threatening suspended, as appeared from the issue, on the intercession of M... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD, THEN THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HEAR IT, (FOR THOU BROUGHTEST UP THIS PEOPLE IN THY MIGHT FROM AMONG THEM;)_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOW, I BESEECH THEE, LET THE POWER OF MY LORD BE GREAT, ACCORDING AS THOU HAST SPOKEN, SAYING,_ Let the power of my Lord be great - be magnified.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING, AND OF GREAT MERCY, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION, AND BY NO MEANS CLEARING THE GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AS TRULY AS I LIVE, ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD._ All the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. This promise, in its full acceptation, remains to be verified by the eventual and universal prevalence of Christianity in the world. But the terms were used... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE ALL THOSE MEN WHICH HAVE SEEN MY GLORY, AND MY MIRACLES, WHICH I DID IN EGYPT AND IN THE WILDERNESS, AND HAVE TEMPTED ME NOW THESE TEN TIMES, AND HAVE NOT HEARKENED TO MY VOICE;_ All those men which ... have tempted me ... There is no hint given in this narrative to warrant the assertion o... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY THEY SHALL NOT SEE THE LAND WHICH I SWARE UNTO THEIR FATHERS, NEITHER SHALL ANY OF THEM THAT PROVOKED ME SEE IT:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT MY SERVANT CALEB, BECAUSE HE HAD ANOTHER SPIRIT WITH HIM, AND HATH FOLLOWED ME FULLY, HIM WILL I BRING INTO THE LAND WHEREINTO HE WENT; AND HIS SEED SHALL POSSESS IT._ My servant Caleb. Joshua was also excepted, but he is not named, because he was no longer in the ranks of the people, being a... [ Continue Reading ]
_(NOW THE AMALEKITES AND THE CANAANITES DWELT IN THE VALLEY.) TO MORROW TURN YOU, AND GET YOU INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA._ Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley - i:e., on the other side of the Idumean mountain at whose base they were then encamped. Those noma... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SAY UNTO THEM, AS TRULY AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, AS YE HAVE SPOKEN IN MINE EARS, SO WILL I DO TO YOU:_ Say unto them, As truly as I live - (cf. Psalms 106:26, where 'lifting the lead,' the ancient gesture of swearing, is used as synonymous with the expression in this passage: cf. Deuteronomy 1:3... [ Continue Reading ]
_YOUR CARCASES SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS; AND ALL THAT WERE NUMBERED OF YOU, ACCORDING TO YOUR WHOLE_ _ NUMBER, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, WHICH HAVE MURMURED AGAINST ME,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_DOUBTLESS YE SHALL NOT COME INTO THE LAND, CONCERNING WHICH I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN, SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN._ Save Caleb ... and Joshua. These are specially mentioned as honourable exceptions to the rest of the scouts, and also as the future leaders of... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT YOUR LITTLE ONES, WHICH YE SAID SHOULD BE A PREY, THEM WILL I BRING IN, AND THEY SHALL KNOW THE LAND WHICH YE HAVE DESPISED._ They (i:e., your little ones) SHALL KNOW THE LAND WHICH YE HAVE DESPISED. This refers to the refusal of the people, misguided by the false report of the ten spies, to i... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AS FOR YOU, YOUR CARCASES, THEY SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AFTER THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS IN WHICH YE SEARCHED THE LAND, EVEN FORTY DAYS, EACH DAY FOR A YEAR, SHALL YE BEAR YOUR INIQUITIES, EVEN FORTY YEARS, AND YE SHALL KNOW MY BREACH OF PROMISE._ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land ... forty days, each day for a year. There was thus... [ Continue Reading ]
_I THE LORD HAVE SAID, I WILL SURELY DO IT UNTO ALL THIS EVIL CONGREGATION, THAT ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST ME: IN THIS WILDERNESS THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED, AND THERE THEY SHALL DIE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN, WHICH MOSES SENT TO SEARCH THE LAND, WHO RETURNED, AND MADE ALL THE CONGREGATION TO MURMUR AGAINST HIM, BY BRINGING UP A SLANDER UPON THE LAND,_ The men ... died by the plague before the Lord. Ten of the spies were struck dead on the spot, either by the pestilence or some other judgme... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES TOLD THESE SAYINGS UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THE PEOPLE MOURNED GREATLY._ The people mourned greatly, х_ WAYIT'ABLUW_ (H56) _ HAA`AAM_ (H5971) _ Mª'OD_ (H3966)] - a strong expression, denoting both internal and external sorrow for sin and calamity (cf. Ezra 10:2; Nehemiah 1:4;... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND GAT THEM UP INTO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, SAYING, LO, WE BE HERE, AND WILL GO UP UNTO THE PLACE WHICH THE LORD HATH PROMISED: FOR WE HAVE SINNED._ They rose up early in the morning. Notwithstanding the tidings that Moses communicated, and which diffused a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID, WHEREFORE NOW DO YE TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD? BUT IT SHALL NOT PROSPER._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THEY PRESUMED TO GO UP UNTO THE HILL TOP: NEVERTHELESS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD, AND MOSES, DEPARTED NOT OUT OF THE CAMP._ The ark of the covenant of the Lord ... departed not out of the camp. The shrines of the pagan deities were, among idolatrous people, carried in the van of thei... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE AMALEKITES CAME DOWN, AND THE CANAANITES WHICH DWELT IN THAT HILL, AND SMOTE THEM, AND DISCOMFITED THEM, EVEN UNTO HORMAH._ The Amalekites ... and the Canaanites - (see the note at Deuteronomy 1:44.) EVEN UNTO HORMAH. The name was afterward given to that place in memory of the immense sl... [ Continue Reading ]