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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Numbers 14:45

The Canaanite; largely so called, but strictly the Arnorite, as appears from Deuteronomy 1:44. Which dwelt; so they were a part and branch of those that dwelt in the valley, Numbers 14:25. Or, sat, i.e. placed themselves, lay in ambush, expecting your coming. Hormah; a place so called afterwards Numbers 21:3, from the great slaughter or destruction of the Israelites at this time.

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See also Numbers 14:45 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    UNTO HORMAH - literally, “the Hormah:” i. e. “the banning,” or “ban-place.” Compare Numbers 21:3; Joshua 12:14. According to the view taken of Kadesh (see Numbers 13:26), Hormah is identified, through...

  • 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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HORMAH. destruction....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _which dwelt in that_ HILL COUNTRY] See on Numbers 14:25. _Hormah_ lit. -the Hormah"; but it occurs here only with the article. A town or district in the south of Palestine whose site is unknown. In...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    G. DEFEATS BY AMALEKITES AND KENITES vv. 39-45 TEXT Numbers 14:39. And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. 40. And they rose up early in the morn...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THE AMALEKITES CAME DOWN, AND THE CANAANITES WHICH DWELT IN THAT HILL, AND SMOTE THEM, AND DISCOMFITED THEM, EVEN UNTO HORMAH._ The Amalekites ... and the Canaanites - (see the note at Deuteron...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    14:45 Hormah. (d-25) 'Utter destruction,' or 'devoted by curse to destruction.' see ch. 21.3....

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNTO HORMAH] This was about 25 m. NE. of Kadesh. They must therefore have marched considerably to the N. of Kadesh: see on Deuteronomy 21:3....

  • 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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN THE AMALEKITES CAME DOWN... — The words “which dwelt in that hill” may refer to the Canaanites only, or to the Amalekites and the Canaanites, and may denote either permanent residence or temporar...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּ֤רֶד הָ עֲמָלֵקִי֙ וְ הַֽ כְּנַעֲנִ֔י

  • 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

    THE PENALTY OF UNBELIEF AND RASHNESS Numbers 14:26 The old translation in Numbers 14:34 was unfortunate. “Breach of promise” is rendered in r.v. “my alienation.” It is still better to notice the marg...

  • 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

    REFLECTIONS I WOULD charge it upon my soul, while reading in this chapter the unhappy conduct of Israel, to seek continually for grace, lest I fall after the same example of unbelief. For am I better...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, the LORD had commanded the people to go back towards the way by the Red Sea. But they, self-willed and presumptuous, wilt go up towards Canaan. Alas! what a continual perverseness there is in...

  • 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

    THEN THE AMALEKITES CAME DOWN,.... The hill; met the Israelites as they ascended: and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill; the same with the Amorites, one of the seven nations of Canaan, Numbers...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah. Ver. 45. _And smote them._] To be out of God's precincts, is to b...

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

    _The Canaanites_ Largely so called, but strictly the Amorites. _Hormah_ A place so called afterward, (Numbers 21:3,) from the slaughter or destruction of the Israelites at this time....

  • 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

    THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 t...

  • 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

    40-45 Some of the Israelites were now earnest to go forward toward Canaan. But it came too late. If men would but be as earnest for heaven while their day of grace lasts, as they will be when it is o...

  • 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 14:45 Amalekites H6003 Canaanites H3669 dwelt H3427 (H8802) mountain H2022 down H3381 (H8799) attacked H5221

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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 I...

  • 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

    _But they presumed to go up._ A PRESUMPTUOUS ENTERPRISE AND ITS DISASTROUS TERMINATION In these verses we have an illustration of-- 1. The sad perversity of sinful human nature. 2. The confession...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 14:41 The Israelites disobeyed Moses’ command and PRESUMED to decide their own course of action. This brought God’s judgment. HORMAH (meaning “Destruction”; see...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 1:44; Deuteronomy 32:30; Exodus 17:16; Joshua 7:11; J

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Canaanites — Largely so called, but strictly the Amorites. Hormah — A place so called afterwards, Numbers 21:3, from the slaughter or destruction of the lsraelites at this time....

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