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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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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 MOSES SAID, WHEREFORE NOW DO YE TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF THE
LORD? BUT IT SHALL NOT PROSPER._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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 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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GO NOT UP, FOR THE LORD IS NOT AMONG YOU. — Moses had already
received the command which is contained in Numbers 14:25. He knew,
therefore, that the Israelites would not have the guidance of the
cloud...
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אַֽל ־תַּעֲל֔וּ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין יְהוָ֖ה
בְּ קִרְב
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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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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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GO NOT UP, FOR THE LORD [IS] NOT AMONG YOU,.... And therefore could
not expect success, for victory is of the Lord; the Targum of Jonathan
adds,
"the ark, and the tabernacle, and the cloud of glory m...
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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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THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE PUNISHED...
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Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten
before your enemies....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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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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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...
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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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Deuteronomy 1:42; Joshua 7:12; Joshua 7:8; Psalms 44:1; Psalms 44:2...