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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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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...
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I SWARE. Hebrew. lifted up my hand. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of
Adjunct), App-6, put for swearing. Compare Numbers 14:21.Deuteronomy
32:40, &c....
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I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN— The phrase is not, _I sware_ to
you _to make you dwell therein,_ but _I sware,_ that is, _to Abraham,_
to make you, that is, _his seed,_ not _you_ as individuals but...
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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...
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_DOUBTLESS YE SHALL NOT COME INTO THE LAND, CONCERNING WHICH I SWARE
TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN, SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA
THE SON OF NUN._
Save Caleb ... and Joshua. These are speci...
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14:30 wise (b-4) Lit. 'if they shall. ' a strong testifying negative
in Hebrew, already noticed, Genesis 21:23 ; and see Numbers 32:11 ;
Hebrews 3:11 ....
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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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אִם ־אַתֶּם֙ תָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל ־הָ אָ֔רֶץ
אֲשֶׁ֤ר
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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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_Hand, the posture of one taking an oath, Genesis xv. 18._...
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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...
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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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DOUBTLESS YE SHALL NOT COME INTO THE LAND,.... The land of Canaan; or
"if ye shall come" a; that is, I swear ye shall not, so the Targum of
Jonathan:
[CONCERNING] WHICH I SWARE TO MAKE YOU DWELL THER...
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_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....
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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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doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware, by
a solemn lifting up of the hand, TO MAKE YOU DWELL THEREIN, SAVE
CALEB, THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH, AND JOSHUA, THE SON OF NUN. They wo...
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THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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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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SWARE:
_ Heb._ lifted up my hand...
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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...
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TO MAKE YOU, i.e. your nation; for God did not swear to do so to these
particular persons....
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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 14:30 Caleb H3612 son H1121 Jephunneh H3312 Joshua H3091 son
H1121 Nun H5126 means H518 enter H935 ...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 1:36; Genesis 14:22; Numbers 14:38; Numbers 26:65;...
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You — Your nation; for God did not swear to do so to these
particular persons....