"Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,"
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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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NUMBERED. Compare Numbers 1:45 with Numbers 26:63....
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_all that were numbered_ in the census (ch. 1). The Levites, however,
were not included in that census (Numbers 1:47), and the priestly
writer probably assumed that the sentence of death in the wilder...
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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...
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_YOUR CARCASES SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS; AND ALL THAT WERE
NUMBERED OF YOU, ACCORDING TO YOUR WHOLE_ _ NUMBER, FROM TWENTY YEARS
OLD AND UPWARD, WHICH HAVE MURMURED AGAINST ME,_
No JFB commentar...
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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. Exodus 32:10, where a similar promise is made and where Mo...
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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 cried aloud....
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FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. — Rashi thinks that these words
were employed to show that the Levites who were numbered from a month
old and upwards were not included in the general sentence of
des...
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בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֣ר הַ֠ זֶּה יִפְּל֨וּ
פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם וְ כָל ־פְּקֻדֵיכֶם֙ לְ
כָל ־מִסְפַּרְכֶ֔ם מִ...
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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 mar...
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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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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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YOUR CARCASSES SHALL FALL IN THIS WILDERNESS,.... They had wished they
had died in it, Numbers 14:2, and the Lord here declares they should,
which is signified by the falling of their carcasses in it,...
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_Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old
and upward, which have murmured against me,_
Ver. 29. _Your carc...
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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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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 th...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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 14:29 carcasses H6297 complained H3885 (H8689) fall H5307
(H8799) wilderness H4057 numbered H6485 (H8803) number H4557 twenty
H6242 years H8141 old H1121 above H4605
carcases - Numbers 14:32-...
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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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_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...
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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 p...
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EXPOSITION
THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) (Numbers 13:1, Numbers 14:1).
NUMBERS 14:1
AND THE PEOPLE WEPT THAT NIGHT. As the spies repeated their dismal
tidings, each to the leading men of his...
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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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1 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 3:17; Jude 1:5; Numbers 1:45; Numbers
26:64; Numbers 14:32; Numbers 14:33...
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If nearly all the men from twenty years up died in the wilderness, why
have none of their graves been discovered?
PROBLEM: According to Numbers 14:29, the corpses of all the men older
than 20 years w...