And your children shall wander. — Better, shall be shepherds, or, shall feed their flocks.
Forty years. — The forty years were reckoned from the exodus, not from the return of the spies to Kadesh. (See Numbers 14:34 and Note.)
And bear your whoredoms. — The children were doomed to bear the penalty of their fathers’ apostasy. (Comp. Exodus 34:16.)
YOUR WHOREDOMS - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them unto Himself. And as the children of the unchaste have generally to bear in thei...
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...
WANDER. be wanderers. WHOREDOMS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the punishment they produced, all caused by idolatry. Compare Jeremiah 3:9; Ezekiel 16:15; Exodus 34:15;...
_your children shall be_ SHEPHERDS] as R.V. marg. They were to continue to rove about with their flocks, instead of settling down to agricultural life in Canaan. The rendering -wanderers" is due to th...
YOUR CHILDREN SHALL WANDER, &C.— _Shall associate together like a flock,_ רעים _raim;_ which possibly alludes to the manner of the Arabian shepherds, who removed their tents from place to place that t...
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...
_BUT AS FOR YOU, YOUR CARCASES, THEY SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
14:33 wander (a-5) 'feed,' as 1 Samuel 25:16 ....
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....
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 D...
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
וּ֠ בְנֵיכֶם יִהְי֨וּ רֹעִ֤ים בַּ † מִּדְבָּר֙...
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...
And your children shall (n) wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your (o) whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. (n) The word signifies to be shepherds, or to wander li...
_Years. Within five days from the departure out of Egypt, (Menochius) and above 38 from this time. Hebrew, "they shall be shepherds," without any fixed dwelling, like the shepherds of that country. --...
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 DOOMED GENERATION_ ‘Your children shall wander in the wilderness … until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.’ Numbers 14:33 It is very common to hear Christian preachers refer to the fo...
33._And your children shall wander in the wilderness. _(67) He here pronounces that their children shall be in some measure partakers of their punishment, inasmuch as they shall wander in the desert u...
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...
AND YOUR CHILDREN SHALL WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS,.... Or "feed" b, as shepherds, who go from place to place, and seek fresh pasture for their sheep; it being the custom of a shepherd, as A...
_Shall wander in the wilderness_ Hebrew, יהיו רעים, _Jehju rognim, shall feed_, shall seek their food from place to place, after the manner of the Arabian shepherds, that were forced to remove their t...
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...
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, sustaining themselves as nomads with their herds in the wastes of the Sinaitic Peninsula, AND BEAR YOUR WHOREDOMS, to expiate, in a way, t...
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...
WANDER: Or, feed...
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...
WANDER, like sheep, feeding in the deserts; or _shall be shepherds_, i.e. shall live like the shepherds of Arabia, in tents, and removing from place to place, having no certain dwelling. FORTY YEARS,...
"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 14:33 sons H1121 shepherds H7462 (H8802) wilderness H4057 forty H705 years H8141 bear H5375 (H8804) infidel
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...
_Each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities._ GOD OFTEN PUNISHES SIN PROPORTIONABLY God oftentimes punisheth in proportion, so that the judgment is answerable to the sin. Of what kind the sin...
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 1:3; Deuteronomy 2:14; Ezekiel 23:35; Ezekiel 23:45;...
Forty years — So long as to make up the time of your dwelling in the wilderness forty years; one whole year and part of another were past before this sin or judgment. Your whoredoms — The punishment o...