I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, cut them off from the promised inheritance by exterminating them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. Cf Exodus 32:10. But Moses stepped into the breach as the mediator and the champion of the people.
AND DISINHERIT THEM - By the proposed extinction of Israel the blessings of the covenant would revert to their original donor....
CHAPTER 14 The Rebellion of the People, Moses' Intercession and the Divine Sentence _ 1. The rebellion (Numbers 14:1)_ 2. The intercession of Moses (Numbers 14:11) 3. The divine sentence (Numbers
NUMBERS 14:11 (JE). YAHWEH'S THREAT _TO_ DISINHERIT THE PEOPLE, AND MOSES-' INTERCESSION FOR THEM. This section is derived from JE, as appears from the exemption of Caleb only (Numbers 14:24) from the...
I WILL SMITE THEM WITH THE PESTILENCE— See Exodus 9:15; Exodus 9:35 where a similar transaction is expressed in a similar manner. It appears from Numbers 14:15 that Moses understood this denunciation...
E. MOSES-' PLEA AND GREAT INTERCESSORY PRAYER vv. 5-19 TEXT Numbers 14:5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6. And Joshua...
_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 - n...
14:12 destroy (a-9) Elsewhere 'dispossess.'...
DISCOURAGEMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND SENTENCE OF FORTY YEARS' WANDERING 9. Bread for us] cp. Numbers 13:32; Numbers 22:4; Numbers 24:8. 12. Cp....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 THE PEOPLE COMPLAIN TO MOSES AND AARON – NUMBERS 14:1-10 V1 That night, the people shouted and they crie
AND WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREATER NATION AND MIGHTIER THAN THEY. — A similar promise had been given to Moses on occasion of the rebellion at Sinai, and Moses on that occasion interceded with God on beha...
אַכֶּ֥נּוּ בַ † דֶּ֖בֶר וְ אֹורִשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְ...
THE DOOM OF THE UNBELIEVING Numbers 14:1 THE spirit of revolt which came to a head in the proposal to put Joshua and Caleb to death was quelled by the fiery splendour that flashed out at the tent of...
AN UNBELIEVING AND REBELLIOUS PEOPLE Numbers 14:1 What in any other nation would have been described as a panic of fear, was, in the case of Israel, a panic of unbelief, which deserved the reproachfu...
The people were swayed by the opinion of the majority. The call was distinctly heard and the desirability of obedience comprehended. But walled cities appeared impregnable and enemies as giants. The r...
Observe, how everything of grace and mercy is made to pass through Moses. Herein reader! do not overlook Moses as a type of the ever blessed JESUS. See Isaiah 42:1....
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. Next, the pleasant land is despised. I shall here call the attention of the reader to some points mentioned on this subject in other parts of the B...
I WILL SMITE THEM WITH THE PESTILENCE, AND DISINHERIT THEM,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the good...
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. Ver. 12. _And I will make of thee a greater nation._] Here God offered Moses...
_I will smite them_ This was not an absolute determination, but a commination, like that of Nineveh's destruction, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, or powerful intercession...
1 The people murmure at the newes. 6 Ioshua and Caleb labour to stil them. 11 God threatneth them. 13 Moses perswadeth God and obtaineth pardon. 26 The murmurers are depriued of entring into the l...
ISRAEL REFUSES THEIR INHERITANCE (vs.1-10) The discouraging words of the ten spies infected the whole congregation of Israel, as a discouragement too frequently does among God's people. They wept tha...
11-19 Moses made humble intercession for Israel. Herein he was a type of Christ, who prayed for those that despitefully used him. The pardon of a nation's sin, is the turning away the nation's punishm...
This was not an absolute determination, as the event showed, but only a condition, like that of Nineveh's destruction within forty days, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, or...
"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night." Need we wonder? What else could be expected from a people who had nothing before their eyes but mighty gian...
Numbers 14:12 strike H5221 (H8686) pestilence H1698 disinherit H3423 (H8686) make H6213 (H8799) nation H1471 great
YAHWEH DECLARES THAT HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THESE PEOPLE (NUMBERS 14:11). Numbers 14:11 ‘And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for...
CONTENTS: Murmuring over the spies' reports and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: All the dangers that we are in are from our own distrust. We would succeed...
Numbers 14:9. _They are bread for us;_ a Hebraicism. In Hosea 4:8, we read that the priests ate up the sins of the people. As the fire licked up the water in the trenches, 1 Kings 18:38; as the priest...
_I will smite them. .. and will make of thee a greater nation._ PROFFER OF JEHOVAH, AND ANSWER OF MOSES This is the second time that Jehovah, in His holy anger, had proposed to deal thus with Moses a...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 14:11 HOW LONG WILL THIS PEOPLE DESPISE ME? The Lord shows the severity of his anger by threatening to destroy the NATION and start all over again with Moses
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 14:4. _Let us make a captain_. It appears from Nehemiah 9:17, that they actually appointed another leader. Numbers 14:5. _Fell on their faces_, &c. In solemn pr...
EXPOSITION THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1). NUMBERS 14:1 And the people wept tha
In chapter fourteen, All of the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole co...
2 Samuel 24:1; 2 Samuel 24:12; Exodus 32:10; Exodus 5:3; Numbers 16
I will smite them — This was not an absolute determination, but a commination, like that of Nineveh's destruction, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, or powerful intercession...