Numbers 14:30

_DOUBTLESS YE SHALL NOT COME INTO THE LAND, CONCERNING WHICH I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN, SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN._ Save Caleb ... and Joshua. These are specially mentioned as honourable exceptions to the rest of the scouts, and also as the future leaders of the people. But it appears that some of the old generation did not join in the mutinous complaints, including in that number the great name of the high priest (Joshua 14:1)....

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 of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan under the burden of their own sin, which was too heavy for them to bear. Ye shall know my breach of promise, both the causes of it, that it is procured by your sin, for God never leaves any till they first leave him; and the consequences of it, that will produce your ruin. But your little ones, now under twenty years old, which ye, in your unbelief, said should be a prey, them will I bring in. God will let them know that he can put a difference between the guilty and the...

EXPOSITION THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1). NUMBERS 14:1 AND THE PEOPLE WEPT THAT NIGHT. As the spies repeated their dismal tidings, each to the leading men of his own tribe, and as the report was spread swiftly through the tents (cf. Deuteronomy 1:27) with ever-increasing exaggerations, the lamentation became universal. NUMBERS 14:2 Murmured against Moses

DOUBTLESS YE SHALL NOT COME INTO THE LAND,.... The land of Canaan; or "if ye shall come" a; that is, I swear ye shall not, so the Targum of Jonathan: [CONCERNING] WHICH I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN; not them personally, but the people and nation of which they were, and to which they belonged, the seed and posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom the oath was made: SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN; who brought a good report of the land. Caleb is mentioned first, as Aben Ezra thinks, because he first appeased and quieted the people; but in Numbers 14:38 Joshua stands first, so that nothing is to be inferred from hence; these were the only two of the spies that went into the land of Canaan, Numbers 13:4; and the only two

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 14:26) 4. The presumption of the people and the defeat (Numbers 14:40) The words of unbelief of the ten spies yielded an awful harvest among the people. The camp was transformed into a camp of despair, weeping and crying during the night. Outspoken rebellion against Moses and Aaron was heard on all sides. Worse than that took place; they accused Jehovah of deception. Such is unbelief. They

NUMBERS 14:26 (P). THE CONDEMNATION OF THE PEOPLE TO FORTY YEARS-' WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS. This passage comes from P, being parallel to, but divergent from, 11- 25, for both Joshua, and Caleb (not the latter alone, as in Numbers 14:24) are exempted from the sentence of exclusion (_cf. Numbers 14:6_). The subsequent history assumes that exemption was extended to Eleazar also (see Numbers 32:28; Joshua 14:1; Joshua 24:33)....

I SWARE. Hebrew. lifted up my hand. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, put for swearing. Compare Numbers 14:21.Deuteronomy 32:40, &c....

I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN— The phrase is not, _I sware_ to you _to make you dwell therein,_ but _I sware,_ that is, _to Abraham,_ to make you, that is, _his seed,_ not _you_ as individuals but as a people; for had that settlement been promised to them as individuals, it had been inconsistent with the divine veracity not to make good that oath; see Grotius de Jure Bel. and Pac. lib. ii. c. xiii. sect. 3. God's promises were made to the seed of Abraham; to the children of Israel; to the Hebrews, an abiding people; which was to subsist for many ages, though particular men were going off daily, as in all fleeting successive bodies. To that people, I say, the promises were literally made, and to the same people they were as literally fulfilled. The promise was not tied to certain persons, but to a certain people, and therefore might be performed at any time, if not otherwise limited,...

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 the glory of the Lord. 22. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 24. But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where-into he went; and his seed shall possess it. 25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. 26. And the Lord spake unto Mo

14:30 wise (b-4) Lit. 'if they shall. ' a strong testifying negative in Hebrew, already noticed, Genesis 21:23 ; and see Numbers 32:11 ; Hebrews 3:11 ....