Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Numbers 14:21
With the glory of the Lord — With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people.
With the glory of the Lord — With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people.
Verse Numbers 14:21. _ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED, C._] כל הארץ _kol_ _haarets_, all THIS land, i. e., the land of Canaan which was only fulfilled to the letter when the preaching of Christ and his...
Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Numbers 14:22 all those men, etc.; Numbers 14:23 shall not see, etc. Numbers 14:22...
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...
AS. LIVE. Hebrew "assuredly. live; and all the earth", &c. Compare Ezekiel 18:3; Ezekiel 20:33.Romans 14:11. ALL THE EARTH. First occurrence of this expression. Compare...
DISCOURSE: 156 GOD’S ANSWER TO THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES Numbers 14:20. _And the Lord said, I have pardoned, according to thy word: but, as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glo...
I HAVE PARDONED, &C.— That is, "At thy intercession I have spared their lives, and will not immediately destroy them; but, in testimony of my severe displeasure, this murmuring generation shall be exc...
F. GENERAL PARDON; SENTENCE UPON THE PROVOKERS, vv. 20-38 TEXT Numbers 14:20. And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with t...
_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 veri...
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
וְ אוּלָ֖ם חַי ־אָ֑נִי וְ יִמָּלֵ֥א כְבֹוד
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...
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...
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...
_Lord. I will surely punish the guilty; and all the earth shall know that their own crimes, and not my imbecility, prevented their taking possession of Chanaan. My glory shall shine both in my long-su...
GOD'S glory is the ultimate object of all his dispensations. The work of creation, is expressly put down to this design. Revelation 4:11. The work of redemption the same. Isaiah 43:21....
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...
21._But as truly as I live, all the earth. _It is, indeed, plain that God here swears by His life and glory: the meaning is only ambiguous in this respect, that some translate it in the past tense, th...
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...
BUT [AS TRULY AS] I LIVE,.... Which is the form of an oath, as the Targum; the Lord swears by his life, or by himself, because he could swear by no greater: ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLO...
But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Ver. 21. _But as truly as I live._] This is an oath, as appears by comparing herewith Psalms 95:11. To blame ther...
_I have pardoned_ So far as not utterly to destroy them. _With the glory of the Lord_ With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people. _My glory_ That is,...
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...
But as truly as I live, a most solemn oath by His own life, ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD, as a result of the measures which the Lord intended to take in punishing the peopl...
MOSES INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE...
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...
20-35 The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out o...
i.e. With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people in manner following. That this is the true sense, appears both from the particle of opposition, and t...
"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 14:21 truly H199 live H2416 earth H776 filled H4390 (H8735) glory H3519 LORD H3068 as truly -...
YAHWEH GRANTS HIS PARDON BUT REFUSES TO CONSIDER THEIR ENTERING HIS LAND (14:20-25). Numbers 14:20 ‘And Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word, but in very deed, as I live, and as all...
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 have pardoned according to thy word._ GOD’S ANSWER TO MOSES’ PRAYER I. The extremity of the sentence is receded from (Numbers 14:20). “I have pardoned,” so as not to cut them all off at once and d...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 14:20 God declares, I HAVE PARDONED, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. That is, he will not destroy Israel immediately; however, they cannot go ahead with their planned entry into Canaan...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 14:21 ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD. God’s purposes will not be defeated by human failure. (See notes on Ps. 72:18–20;...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:40; Ezekiel 18:3; Ezekiel 33:11; Ezekiel 33:27;...