Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 14:20
And the LORD said, I have pardoned (h) according to thy word:
(h) In that he did not utterly destroy them, but allowed their children and certain others to enter.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned (h) according to thy word:
(h) In that he did not utterly destroy them, but allowed their children and certain others to enter.
Verse Numbers 14:20. _I HAVE PARDONED_] That is, They shall not be cut off _as_ they deserve, because thou hast interceded for their lives....
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...
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...
_THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING, AND OF GREAT MERCY, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION, AND BY NO MEANS CLEARING THE GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOU...
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
I HAVE PARDONED ACCORDING TO THY WORD. — The holiness and justice of the Lord required that punishment should overtake the transgressors, as it had been foretold in Exodus 32:34. Nevertheless the pray...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה סָלַ֖חְתִּי כִּ דְבָרֶֽךָ׃...
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...
_Forgiven the sins to those who repent; but the punishment due to them must be undergone, though not so soon as I had threatened, ver. 12, 19. How happy is that nation, which has one like Moses to int...
Observe the expression, I have pardoned. Yes, JESUS is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Hence the efficacy of that blood which cleanseth from all sin, reacheth through all ages. Revela...
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...
20._And the Lord said, I have pardoned, according to thy word. _God signifies that tie pardons for His servant Moses’ sake, and makes, as it were, a present to him of those whom He had already devoted...
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 THE LORD SAID, I HAVE PARDONED, ACCORDING TO THY WORD. So as not to kill them utterly as one man: which is an instance of his being plenteous in mercy, and ready to forgive; and of the virtue and...
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: Ver. 20. _I have pardoned them,_] viz., So as not utterly, and at once, to extirpate them. I will be "as a moth" unto them, and not as a devo...
_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...
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word; He had been vanquished by the appeal of Moses, by the two great reasons urged by this bold champion of the people....
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...
So far as not utterly to destroy them, as I threatened, NUMBERS 14:12, and thou didst fear, and beg the prevention of it, NUMBERS 14:15....
"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 14:20 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) pardoned H5545 (H8804) word H1697...
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...
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...
1 John 5:14; 1 John 5:15; Ephesians 4:32; Isaiah 48:11; Isaiah 48:9;...
I have pardoned — So far as not utterly to destroy them....