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Verse Numbers 14:34. _AFTER THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS_] The spies were
_forty_ _days_ in searching the land, and the people who rebelled on
their evil report are condemned to wander _forty years_ in the...
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MY BREACH OF PROMISE - In the original, a word, found elsewhere only
in Job 30:10, and meaning “my withdrawals” “my turning away.”
See the margin....
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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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FORTY DAYS. See App-10. The number of Probation.
EACH DAY FOR. YEAR. No universal law here: "day" means day, and "year"
means year. See App-11.
BREACH. "my breach of promise (compare Numbers 14:42 an...
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_my alienation my_ OPPOSITION. Ye shall experience what it means to be
opposed and hindered by me. The subst. occurs in Job 33:10 only. For
the verb cf. Numbers 30:6 (R.V. -disallow"), Numbers 32:7 (R...
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YE SHALL KNOW MY BREACH OF PROMISE— My vengeance, _Waterland._ There
is nothing for _of promise_ in the original. Dr. Waterland follows
many of the ancient versions. Houbigant renders it, _and ye shal...
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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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_AFTER THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS IN WHICH YE SEARCHED THE LAND, EVEN
FORTY DAYS, EACH DAY FOR A YEAR, SHALL YE BEAR YOUR INIQUITIES, EVEN
FORTY YEARS, AND YE SHALL KNOW MY BREACH OF PROMISE._
After the...
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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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EVEN FORTY DAYS, EACH DAY FOR A YEAR. — The numbering which is
recorded in chapter 26 took place after the death of Aaron, which
happened on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year
after...
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בְּ מִסְפַּ֨ר הַ יָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר
־תַּרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת ־הָ אָרֶץ֮
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יֹום֒ יֹ֣ום לַ †...
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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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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even]
forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even]
forty years, and ye (p) shall know my breach of promise.
(p)...
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CHAPTER XIV.
_ Revenge. Hebrew, "my breach of promise, or if my threats be vain,"
&c. Septuagint, "you shall know the fury of my anger." (Calmet) --- I
will convince you by the severity with which I...
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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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AFTER THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN WHICH YE SEARCHED THE LAND,
[EVEN] FORTY DAYS,.... For so long they were searching it,
Numbers 13:25;
EACH DAY FOR A YEAR; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for...
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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even]
forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even]
forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Ver. 34....
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_Each day for a year_ So there should have been forty years to come,
but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of
that time. _Ye shall know my breach of promise_ That as you...
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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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BREACH OF PROMISE:
Or, altering of my purpose...
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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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EACH DAY FOR A YEAR; so there should have been forty years to come,
but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of
that time. MY BREACH OF PROMISE, that as you have first broke...
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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 14:34 number H4557 days H3117 out H8446 (H8804) land H776
forty H705 days H3117 day H3117 bear H5375 (H8799) guilt H5771 year
H8141 H3117 H8141 forty H705 years H8141 know H3045 (H8804) reject...
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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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_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 si...
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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 Kings 8:56; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Daniel 9:24;
Deuteronomy 31:16; Deuteronomy 31:17; Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 4:6;
Hebrews 4:1;...
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Each day for a year — So there should have been forty years to come,
but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of
that time. Ye shall know my breach of promise — That as you...