Numbers 14:4
What meaning of the numbers 14:4 in the Bible?
What does Numbers 14:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
What does Numbers 14:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
Verse Numbers 14:4. _LET US MAKE A CAPTAIN_] Here was a formal renunciation of the authority of Moses, and flat rebellion against God. And it seems from Nehemiah 9:17 that they had actually appointed...
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 14:1 (P). THE PEOPLE'S DISCOURAGEMENT AT THE REPORT OF THE SPIES. This section is also a fusion of JE and P: its composite character is suggested by the repetitions in Numbers 14:1. In Numbers...
CAPTAIN. At Horeb they made. "calf"; at Kadesh they would make. "captain". Two notable occasions....
DISCOURSE: 154 APOSTASY DEPRECATED Numbers 14:4. _And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly o...
THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US MAKE A CAPTAIN— We learn from Nehemiah 9:17 that they actually appointed a captain in the height of this their mutiny, insolence, and ingratitude, not only against Mos...
D. COMPLAINT AND REBELLION (NUMBERS 14:1-4) TEXT Numbers 14:1. And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2. And all the children of Israel murmured a...
_AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST AARON: AND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION SAID UNTO THEM, WOULD GOD THAT WE HAD DIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT! OR WOULD GOD WE HAD DIED IN THIS W...
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. Exodus 32:10, where a similar promise is made and where Mo...
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 cried aloud....
וַ יֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְ נָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃...
THE SPIES AND THEIR REPORT Numbers 13:1; Numbers 14:1 Two narratives at least appear to be united in the thirteenth and fourteenth Chapter s. From Numbers 13:17; Numbers 13:22, we learn that the spie...
AN UNBELIEVING AND REBELLIOUS PEOPLE Numbers 14:1 What in any other nation would have been described as a panic of fear, was, in the case of Israel, a panic of unbelief, which deserved the reproachfu...
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...
_Captain, instead of Moses, whom they could not bring over to their criminal design, no more than Aaron, Josue, Caleb, &c. (Haydock) --- Some imagine the rebels wanted to choose themselves a king, (Ca...
Reader! stand still, and solemnly review the awful progress of sin. First, it broke out in unavailing cries and tears a whole night. Next, in murmurings against the divine government. Then, in daring...
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 SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US MAKE A CAPTAIN,.... An head over them instead of Moses, who they knew would never take the government and care of them, should they resolve to return to Egypt as t...
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Ver. 4. _Let us make a captain._] Thus they proceeded from bad to worse. Passions, like heavy bodies down steep hill...
_A captain_ Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Nehemiah tells us they actually appointed them a captain. _Into Egypt_ Stupendous madness, insolence, and ingratitu...
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...
JOSHUA AND CALEB ENDEAVOR TO QUENCH THE DISSATISFACTION...
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 th...
1-4 Those who do not trust God, continually vex themselves. The sorrow of the world worketh death. The Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and in them reproached the Lord. They look back wit...
A CAPTAIN, instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. This was but a purpose or desire, and yet it is imputed to them as if they had done it, NEHEMIAH 9:16,17, they _appo...
"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 14:4 said H559 (H8799) one H376 another H251 select H5414 (H8799) leader H7218 return H7725 (H8799) Egypt H4714 Deuteronomy 17:16, Deuteronomy 28:68; Nehemiah 9:16-17;...
CHAPTER 14 THE RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE LEADS TO REJECTION FROM THE LAND. It is not difficult to guess at what their decision would be even before we learn of it. They were frightened and therefore inc...
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...
_Let us return into Egypt._ THE REWARDS OF THE FUTURE NOT TO BE SLIGHTED BECAUSE OF A PRESENT INCONVENIENCE The proposition of the people illustrates anew the principle that all sin is a species of i...
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 p...
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...
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 Peter 2:21; 2 Peter 2:22; Acts 7:39; Deuteronomy 17:16; Deuteronomy 28:68; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39; Hebrews 11:15; Luke 17:32;...
A captain — Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Into Egypt — Stupendous madness! Whence should they have protection against the hazards, and provision against all...