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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Numbers 14:4

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, (Calmet) or even another god. (Drusius) --- Every community acknowledges the necessity of having one at the head. (Worthington)

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See also Numbers 14:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CAPTAIN. At Horeb they made. "calf"; at Kadesh they would make. "captain". Two notable occasions....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 ag...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה ר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, choose some determined man as leader, AND LET US RETURN INTO EGYPT. So the cowardly dissatisfaction of the people was rapidly turning into open reb...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOSHUA AND CALEB ENDEAVOR TO QUENCH THE DISSATISFACTION...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 14:4 said H559 (H8799) one H376 another H251 select H5414 (H8799) leader H7218 return H7725 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1). NUMBERS 14:1 And the people wept tha

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:21; 2 Peter 2:22; Acts 7:39; Deuteronomy 17:16; Deut

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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