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
COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "mouth". Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the word spoken by it....
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 MOSES SAID, WHEREFORE NOW DO YE TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD? BUT IT SHALL NOT PROSPER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֛ה אַתֶּ֥ם עֹב
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...
_Which conduct shall not, &c. They had been ordered to return: now they will advance, and, though admonished that the Lord will not assist them, they depend upon their own efforts, being ever full of...
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...
41._And Moses said, Wherefore do ye now transgress? _He rejects this feigned penitence, whereby the sinner tries all sorts of shifts, (78) so as not to submit himself to God. “If thou wilt return, O I...
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 MOSES SAID, WHEREFORE NOW DO YE TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD?.... Which was to turn back into the wilderness, and go the way that leads to the Red sea, Numbers 14:25; instead of which no...
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...
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? But it shall not prosper. He predicted certain defeat to the self-willed people, who presumed to set aside the word of the L...
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED...
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...
THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD; either that command, _Go not up_, &c., which, though in this place mentioned after, yet may seem to have gone before their transgression, by comparing this place with DEUT...
"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 14:41 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) transgress H5674 (H8802) command H6310 LORD H3068 succeed H6743 ...
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...
2 Chronicles 24:20; Jeremiah 2:37; Jeremiah 32:5; Job 4:9; Numbers 1