-
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 14:1 (P). THE PEOPLE'S DISCOURAGEMENT AT THE REPORT OF THE
SPIES. This section is also a fusion of JE and P: its composite
character is suggested by the repetitions in Numbers 14:1. In Numbers...
-
WHEREFORE. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._
WERE IT NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
-
D. COMPLAINT AND REBELLION (NUMBERS 14:1-4)
TEXT
Numbers 14:1. And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night. 2. And all the children of
Israel murmured ag...
-
_AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST
AARON: AND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION SAID UNTO THEM, WOULD GOD THAT WE
HAD DIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT! OR WOULD GOD WE HAD DIED IN THIS
W...
-
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
-
AND WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD BROUGHT US UNTO THIS LAND...? — Better,
_And wherefore doth the Lord bring us into this land?_ — _i.e.,_ the
land of Canaan, as clearly appears from the words which follow...
-
וְ לָמָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜נוּ
אֶל ־הָ
-
THE SPIES AND THEIR REPORT
Numbers 13:1; Numbers 14:1
Two narratives at least appear to be united in the thirteenth and
fourteenth Chapter s. From Numbers 13:17;...
-
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...
-
AN UNBELIEVING AND REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
Numbers 14:1
What in any other nation would have been described as a panic of fear,
was, in the case of Israel, a panic of unbelief, which deserved the
reproachfu...
-
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...
-
We may. The Latin manuscripts and Bibles before Sixtus V read, "in
Egypt, and not in this," &c. But the present translation agrees with
the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean. (Calmet) --- They obtained...
-
Reader! stand still, and solemnly review the awful progress of sin.
First, it broke out in unavailing cries and tears a whole night. Next,
in murmurings against the divine government. Then, in daring...
-
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...
-
3._And wherefore has the Lord brought us into this land? _The pride,
and even the madness of their impiety here more fully betrays itself,
when they accuse God of deception and cruelty, as if tie were...
-
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...
-
WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD BROUGHT US UNTO THIS LAND,.... Unto the
borders of it: their murmuring did not cease at Moses and Aaron, the
instruments, but proceeded against God himself, who had done such
w...
-
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the
sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not
better for us to return into Egypt?
Ver. 3. _Were it not bet...
-
_Against Moses and Aaron_ As the instruments and causes of their
present calamity. _That we had died in the wilderness_ It was not long
till they had their desire, and did die in the wilderness. _Wher...
-
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 wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to the borders
of this so-called Land of Promise, TO FALL BY THE SWORD, THAT OUR
WIVES AND OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE A PREY, be taken captive and th...
-
JOSHUA AND CALEB ENDEAVOR TO QUENCH THE DISSATISFACTION...
-
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...
-
1-4 Those who do not trust God, continually vex themselves. The
sorrow of the world worketh death. The Israelites murmured against
Moses and Aaron, and in them reproached the Lord. They look back wit...
-
From the instruments they rise higher, and strike at God the chief
cause and author of their journey; by which we see the prodigious
growth and progress of sin when it is not resisted. _Should be a pr...
-
"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 14:3 LORD H3068 brought H935 (H8688) land H776 fall H5307
(H8800) sword H2719 wives H802 children...
-
CHAPTER 14 THE RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE LEADS TO REJECTION FROM THE
LAND.
It is not difficult to guess at what their decision would be even
before we learn of it. They were frightened and therefore inc...
-
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...
-
_The people wept._
TRUTHS IN TEARS
I. That to entrust the important affairs of society to the conduct of
men of an inferior type is a great evil. Feeble-minded, and
mean-hearted men, at the head of...
-
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...
-
Jeremiah 9:3; Numbers 14:31; Numbers 14:32; Psalms 78:40...
-
The Lord — From instruments they rise higher, and strike at God the
cause and author of their journey: by which we see the prodigious
growth and progress of sin when it is not resisted. A prey — To th...