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 incapable. It would be another generation before they would become strong enough to again contemplate a... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES AND AARON PLEAD FOR ISRAEL (NUMBERS 14:5). Numbers 14:5 ‘Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.' Moses and Aaron were appalled. Here were the people before the very Dwellingplace of Yahweh, and yet they were talking li... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA AND CALEB PLEAD WITH ISRAEL (NUMBERS 14:6). Numbers 14:6 ‘And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.' Joshua and Caleb, the only two scouts who had not spoken against going forward, now tore their clothes in or... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE REACT AGAINST THEM AND SPUR YAHWEH TO VISIBLE ACTION (NUMBERS 14:10). Numbers 14:10 ‘But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.' The crowd in their deep distress, stricken in their own co... [ Continue Reading ]
YAHWEH DECLARES THAT HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THESE PEOPLE (NUMBERS 14:11). Numbers 14:11 ‘And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinheri... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES SUCCESSFULLY INTERCEDES FOR THEM (NUMBERS 14:13). Numbers 14:13 ‘And Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh, because all those men who have seen my glory, a... [ Continue Reading ]
YAHWEH NOW CONFIRMS THE FUTURE OF THE CURRENT GENERATION OF ISRAELITES AND HOW THEIR CHILDREN MUST SUFFER WITH THEM (NUMBERS 14:26). Later Yahweh came to Moses again and detailed out the position He was now taking up. a Because of their murmuring the children of Israel will die in the wilderness ... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AFTERMATH (NUMBERS 14:36). A number of things followed on Yahweh's words. a The men who brought the evil report died, while Joshua and Caleb lived (Numbers 14:36). b Moses told the children of Israel of what Yahweh had said and they mourned greatly (Numbers 14:39) b The people declared that... [ Continue Reading ]