Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 14:28-30
As ye have spoken When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness. To make you dwell That is, your nation; for God did not swear to do so to these particular persons.
As ye have spoken When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness. To make you dwell That is, your nation; for God did not swear to do so to these particular persons.
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
NUMBERS 14:26 (P). THE CONDEMNATION OF THE PEOPLE TO FORTY YEARS-' WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS. This passage comes from P, being parallel to, but divergent from, 11- 25, for both Joshua, and Caleb (n...
AS. according as. so will. do. Psalms 95:11. Psa 26:65. Psalms 32:11.Deuteronomy 1:35.Hebrews 3:17;...
_as ye have spoken_ i.e. in Numbers 14:2....
F. GENERAL PARDON; SENTENCE UPON THE PROVOKERS, vv. 20-38 TEXT Numbers 14:20. And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with t...
_SAY UNTO THEM, AS TRULY AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, AS YE HAVE SPOKEN IN MINE EARS, SO WILL I DO TO YOU:_ Say unto them, As truly as I live - (cf. Psalms 106:26, where 'lifting the lead,' the ancient...
14:28 live, (d-8) See Note, Genesis 24:38 ; 'saith' is as Genesis 22:16 ....
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....
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
AS YE HAVE SPOKEN IN MINE EARS, SO WILL I DO UNTO YOU. — The Israelites had exclaimed in their sinful murmuring against God, “Would God we had died in the wilderness” (Numbers 14:2); and God declares...
אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם חַי ־אָ֨נִי֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה א
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...
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...
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...
Reader! remark with me, with what precision and exactness even in divine judgments, a man's own ways determine the event. The people had waited for the spies' return very patiently 40 days: was it not...
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...
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...
SAY UNTO THEM, [AS TRULY AS] I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD,.... The form of an oath, as in Numbers 14:21; AS YE HAVE SPOKEN IN MINE EARS, SO WILL I DO TO YOU; what they had wished for, and expressed in the...
Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Ver. 28. _So will I do to you._] God took them at their words: so he may well do our desperat...
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...
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:...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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...
20-35 The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out o...
As you wickedly wished you might have died in the wilderness, NUMBERS 14:2, I will bring your imprecations upon your heads....
"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...
Numbers 14:28 Say H559 (H8798) them H3808 live H2416 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 spoken H1696 ...
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...
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...
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...
_I have heard the murmurings._ BASE MURMURING Murmuring is not a simple sin, but involves-- 1. Presumption. 2. Ingratitude. 3. Rebellion. I. Murmuring without any cause. II. Murmuring against t...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 14:20 God declares, I HAVE PARDONED, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. That is, he will not destroy Israel immediately; however, they cannot go ahead with their planned entry into Canaan...
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...
EXPOSITION THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1). NUMBERS 14:1 And the people wept tha
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...
Deuteronomy 1:35; Hebrews 3:17; Numbers 14:2; Numbers 14:21; Numbe
As ye have spoken — When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness....