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Verse Numbers 14:40. _WE - WILL GO UP UNTO THE PLACE, C._] They found
themselves on the very borders of the land, and they heard God say
they should not enter it, but should be consumed by a forty ye...
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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
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LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.
SINNED. Hebrew. _chat'a._ App-44....
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_the top of the mountain_ Perhaps a particular hill in the south of
the Negeb, close to Kadesh: but it may denote more generally -the high
ground of the hill country....
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THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING— The people, struck with a
temporary concern, a transient fit of slavish fear, as the sequel too
clearly proves; were now as forward to advance as they had been
backw...
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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...
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_AND THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND GAT THEM UP INTO THE TOP
OF THE MOUNTAIN, SAYING, LO, WE BE HERE, AND WILL GO UP UNTO THE PLACE
WHICH THE LORD HATH PROMISED: FOR WE HAVE SINNED._
They ros...
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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....
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THE MOUNTAIN] the Hillcountry by way of which the spies had gone. The
people presume to disobey the command of Deuteronomy 2:25....
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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
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INTO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. — Or, _towards the top of the
mountain._ This appears to have been the same route as that by which
the spies had gone into the south country of Judæa. (See Numbers
13:17....
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וַ יַּשְׁכִּ֣מוּ בַ † בֹּ֔קֶר וַ
יַּֽעֲל֥וּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of
the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place
which the LORD hath promised: for we have (q) sinned.
(q)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THEY ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING,.... The next morning after they
had heard the bad news of their consumption in the wilderness; not
being able, perhaps, to sleep that night with the thoughts of...
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And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of
the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place
which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Ver. 40....
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_And the people mourned greatly_ But it was now too late. There was
now no place for repentance. Such mourning as this there is in hell;
but the tears will not quench the flames. _Gat them up_ Designe...
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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...
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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...
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THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED...
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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...
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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...
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GAT THEM UP, i.e. designed, or attempted, or prepared themselves to go
up; for that they were not yet actually gone up, plainly appears from
NUMBERS 14:42,44, and from DEUTERONOMY 1:41. Things designe...
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"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...
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Numbers 14:40 early H7925 (H8686) morning H1242 up H5927 (H8799) top
H7218 mountain H2022 saying H559 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1).
NUMBERS 14:1
And the people wept tha
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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...
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Gat them up — Designed or prepared themselves to go up....