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 reproachful expostulation of Jehovah in Numbers 14:11. The transition is easy from unbelief to open rebellion... [ Continue Reading ]
PARDON BY MOSES' INTERCESSION Numbers 14:13 Moses was free from selfish ambition. His one thought was for the glory of God. When for a moment the suggestion presented itself to his mind that his own seed should take the place of this rebellious race he instantly dismissed it. It was not to be ente... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PENALTY OF UNBELIEF AND RASHNESS Numbers 14:26 The old translation in Numbers 14:34 was unfortunate. “Breach of promise” is rendered in r.v. “my alienation.” It is still better to notice the marginal reading, “the revoking of my promise.” But even this hardly gives us the true meaning of the w... [ Continue Reading ]