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. Exodus 32:10, where a similar promise is made and where Moses shows the same self-effacing spirit. 13. Cp. Joshua 7:9; 2 Samuel 1:2; Psalms 79:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE POWER OF MY LORD BE GREAT] i.e. in the eyes of the heathen, when they see Israel possessing the land. 18. See on Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE TEN TIMES] a round number indieating full measure: cp. Genesis 31:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL WANDER] RV 'shall be wanderers.' Better, 'shall be shepherds,' lead an unsettled life instead of occupying the land. The forty years are reckoned from the time of the departure from Egypt. See Deuteronomy 2:14. BEAR YOUR WHOREDOMS] suffer the penalty of your faithlessness.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BREACH OF PROMISE] RV 'my alienation' from you; RM 'the revoking of my promise.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MOUNTAIN] the Hillcountry by way of which the spies had gone. The people presume to disobey the command of Deuteronomy 2:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]