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Numbers 14:40
the top of the mountain Perhaps a particular hill in the south of the Negeb, close to Kadesh: but it may denote more generally -the high ground of the hill country."
the top of the mountain Perhaps a particular hill in the south of the Negeb, close to Kadesh: but it may denote more generally -the high ground of the hill country."
Verse Numbers 14:40. _WE - WILL GO UP UNTO THE PLACE, C._] They found themselves on the very borders of the land, and they heard God say they should not enter it, but should be consumed by a forty ye...
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
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. SINNED. Hebrew. _chat'a._ App-44....
THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING— The people, struck with a temporary concern, a transient fit of slavish fear, as the sequel too clearly proves; were now as forward to advance as they had been backw...
G. DEFEATS BY AMALEKITES AND KENITES vv. 39-45 TEXT Numbers 14:39. And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. 40. And they rose up early in the morn...
_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 ros...
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 MOUNTAIN] the Hillcountry by way of which the spies had gone. The people presume to disobey the command of Deuteronomy 2:25....
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
INTO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. — Or, _towards the top of the mountain._ This appears to have been the same route as that by which the spies had gone into the south country of Judæa. (See Numbers 13:17....
וַ יַּשְׁכִּ֣מוּ בַ † בֹּ֔קֶר וַ יַּֽעֲל֥וּ...
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...
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 marg...
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...
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 (q) sinned. (q)...
Observe, the LORD had commanded the people to go back towards the way by the Red Sea. But they, self-willed and presumptuous, wilt go up towards Canaan. Alas! what a continual perverseness there is in...
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...
AND THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING,.... The next morning after they had heard the bad news of their consumption in the wilderness; not being able, perhaps, to sleep that night with the thoughts of...
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. Ver. 40....
_And the people mourned greatly_ But it was now too late. There was now no place for repentance. Such mourning as this there is in hell; but the tears will not quench the flames. _Gat them up_ Designe...
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...
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED...
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, with the object of forcing their way through the pass to the opposite side of the mountain range and beginning the...
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...
40-45 Some of the Israelites were now earnest to go forward toward Canaan. But it came too late. If men would but be as earnest for heaven while their day of grace lasts, as they will be when it is o...
GAT THEM UP, i.e. designed, or attempted, or prepared themselves to go up; for that they were not yet actually gone up, plainly appears from NUMBERS 14:42,44, and from DEUTERONOMY 1:41. Things designe...
"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 14:40 early H7925 (H8686) morning H1242 up H5927 (H8799) top H7218 mountain H2022 saying H559 ...
THE AFTERMATH (NUMBERS 14:36). A number of things followed on Yahweh's words. a The men who brought the evil report died, while Joshua and Caleb lived (Numbers 14:36). b Moses told the children of I...
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...
_But they presumed to go up._ A PRESUMPTUOUS ENTERPRISE AND ITS DISASTROUS TERMINATION In these verses we have an illustration of-- 1. The sad perversity of sinful human nature. 2. The confession...
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 1:41; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Luke 13:25; Matthew 26:11;...
Gat them up — Designed or prepared themselves to go up....