Numbers 14:1-10
JOSHUA AND CALEB ENDEAVOR TO QUENCH THE DISSATISFACTION... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA AND CALEB ENDEAVOR TO QUENCH THE DISSATISFACTION... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept that night; they moaned and shrieked and shed bitter tears and behaved altogether like men and women whose last hope in life is dead. And the galling grief of despondency was followed by an embittered feeling against the l... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, with a threatening note; 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 WILDERNESS! Their lament was: If only we had died before starting out on this... [ Continue Reading ]
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to the borders of this so-called Land of Promise, TO FALL BY THE SWORD, THAT OUR WIVES AND OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE A PREY, be taken captive and thus be at the mercy of their victorious enemies? WERE IT NOT BETTER FOR US TO RETURN INTO EGYPT?... [ Continue Reading ]
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 rebellion.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Moses and Aaron, after endeavoring in vain to give the people the proper courage, by reminding them of the promises of Jehovah, Deuteronomy 1:29, FELL ON THEIR FACES BEFORE ALL THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Their object was to bring the situation to the attention o... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, Caleb having registered his protest even the day before, Numbers 13:30, RENT THEIR CLOTHES, in the excess of their grief over the stubbornness of the people;... [ Continue Reading ]
and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. They emphasized the exceptional merits of the land very strongly.... [ Continue Reading ]
If the Lord delight in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it us, a land which floweth with milk and honey. They had so many evidences of God's grace and mercy in the fulfillment of His promises to them that even an implied doubt of His inability to help them in overcoming the enemies... [ Continue Reading ]
Only rebel not ye against the Lord, by such open disobedience, NEITHER FEAR YE THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND; FOR THEY ARE BREAD FOR US, they can be devoured, overcome with ease; THEIR DEFENSE IS DEPARTED FROM THEM, literally, "their shadow, in which they were safe, has left them," AND THE LORD IS WITH US;... [ Continue Reading ]
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, for the people were beyond the point where a sensible appeal could make any impression upon them; they were filled with stubborn spite. AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD APPEARED IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION BEFORE ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. It... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? as they were now doing with their insulting rejection, AND HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THEY BELIEVE ME, FOR ALL THE SIGNS WHICH I HAVE SHOWED AMONG THEM? They rejected God, they did not accept the evidences of His power and of His mercy... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, cut them off from the promised inheritance by exterminating them, AND WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREATER NATION AND MIGHTIER THAN THEY. Cf Exodus 32:10. But Moses stepped into the breach as the mediator and the champion of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them,)... [ Continue Reading ]
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. The Egyptians themselves had received unmistakable evidence of the fact that it was the one true, the almighty God, who had led His people forth from their country, from the house of bondage, and they had brought the report to the Canaanitish na... [ Continue Reading ]
Now if Thou shalt kill all this people as one man, as the Lord had just threatened to do, THEN THE NATIONS WHICH HAVE HEARD THE FAME OF THEE WILL SPEAK, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He sware unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness. Cf Exodus 32:11; Exodus 34:6. The intercession of Moses urged that the honor of the Lord would suffer if He carried out His threat, for the heathen nations would... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, He should reveal and prove Himself as great in mercy, ACCORDING AS THOU HAST SPOKEN, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord is long-suffering 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 fourth generation. Cf Exodus 34:6. That is the manner of effective prayer: it takes hold of the Word and... [ Continue Reading ]
Pardon, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy mercy, and as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. It is the prayer of faith which does not allege merit and worthiness, but pleads only for mercy, for forgiveness, for pardon.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
But as truly as I live, a most solemn oath by His own life, ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD, as a result of the measures which the Lord intended to take in punishing the people for their sins. He did not purpose to destroy Israel as a people, according to His first threat, b... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it; in bringing His judgment to pass upon this generation, the Lord would contribute to the spreading of His glory through all the earth;... [ Continue Reading ]
but My servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit with him, not one of disobedience and rebellion, AND HATH FOLLOWED ME FULLY, trusted absolutely in the merciful guidance of Jehovah, HIM WILL I BRING INTO THE LAND WHEREINTO HE WENT; AND HIS SEED SHALL POSSESS IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) The part of Canaan over which Caleb would have dominion extended from the region of the Amalekites down to the lowlands where the Canaanites lived. TOMORROW TURN YOU AND GET YOU INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA; they were to t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED... [ Continue Reading ]
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against Me? being incorrigible in their dissatisfied opposition to the ways of the Lord's dispensation. I HAVE HEARD THE MURMURINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHICH THEY MURMUR AGAINST ME, for they were continually engaged in grumbling of... [ Continue Reading ]
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you, Cf v. 2:... [ Continue Reading ]
your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; literally, "in this very wilderness shall fall your dead bodies"; AND ALL THAT WERE NUMBERED OF YOU, ACCORDING TO YOUR WHOLE NUMBER, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, WHICH HAVE MURMURED AGAINST ME,... [ Continue Reading ]
doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware, by a solemn lifting up of the hand, TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN, SAVE CALEB, THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA, THE SON OF NUN. They would see for themselves whether the oath which the Lord had now sworn by His own life would be fulfil... [ Continue Reading ]
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.... [ Continue Reading ]
But as for you, as the Lord here repeats for the sake of emphasis, YOUR CARCASSES, THEY SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, sustaining themselves as nomads with their herds in the wastes of the Sinaitic Peninsula, AND BEAR YOUR WHOREDOMS, to expiate, in a way, the spiritual unfaithfulness of their fathers, UNTIL YOUR CARCASSES BE WASTED IN THE WILDERNESS, unti... [ Continue Reading ]
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, Numbers 13:25, EACH DAY FOR A YEAR, SHALL YE BEAR YOUR INIQUITIES, EVEN FORTY YEARS, AND YE SHALL KNOW MY BREACH OF PROMISE; they would experience what it means when the Lord turns from a people in anger, being obliged to w... [ Continue Reading ]
I, the Lord, have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the men which Moses sent to search the land, who" returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, by misrepresenting the facts about Canaan and exaggerating the difficulties of conquering its people,... [ Continue Reading ]
even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord; the punishment struck them very suddenly, and struck them down as the first among the rebellious people.... [ Continue Reading ]
But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still, their preservation, in the circumstances, being all the more remarkable, and substantiating the word of the Lord. The judgment upon such as were leaders in the Church and abu... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, he announced to them in what manner the Lord intended to punish them; AND THE PEOPLE MOURNED GREATLY. Although they were now standing on the threshold of Canaan, they were denied entrance into the Land of Promise, and all by their own fau... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED... [ Continue Reading ]
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, with the object of forcing their way through the pass to the opposite side of the mountain range and beginning the conquest of Canaan on their own responsibility; it was a reaction from the extremities of despair wh... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Lord. True repentance bows in humility under the will of the Lord, no matter in what manner He choose... [ Continue Reading ]
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, their armies having probably been mobilized to resist the threatened invasion, AND YE SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD; BECAUSE YE ARE TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD, THEREFORE THE LORD WILL NOT BE WITH YOU. Two days before, in unbelief, they had refused... [ Continue Reading ]
But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop; nevertheless the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, eager to meet the invaders, AND SMOTE THEM AND DISCOMFITED THEM, EVEN UNTO HORMAH. Having put them to flight, they pursued them with relentless fury, Deuteronomy 1:44, attacking the individual bands again and again, until pa... [ Continue Reading ]