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Numbers 14:13-23

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13 But Moses replied to the Lord, "The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.
14 They will tell [it to] the inhabitants of this land.[a] They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.[b]
15 If You kill this people with a single blow,[c] [d] the nations that have heard of Your fame[e] will declare,
16 'Since the Lord wasn't able to bring this people into the land He swore to [give] them,[f] He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
17 "So now, may My Lord's power be magnified just as You have spoken:
18 The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love,[g] forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion.[h] But He will not leave [the guilty] unpunished,[i] bringing the consequences of the fathers' wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.[j]
19 Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love,[k] just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now."
20 The Lord responded, "I have pardoned [them] as you requested.
21 Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord's glory,[l]
22 none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,
23 will ever see the land I swore to [give] their fathers.[m] None of those who have despised Me[n] will see it.
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Numbers 14:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 14

This chapter treats or the murmurings of the children of Israel upon the evil report of the spies, which greatly distressed Moses and Aaron, Nu 14:1-5; and of the endeavours of Joshua and Caleb to quiet the minds of the people with a good account of the land, and of the easy conquest of it, but to no purpose, Nu 14:6-10; and of the Lord's threatening to destroy the people with the pestilence, Nu 14:11,12; and of the intercession of Moses for them, which so far succeeded as to prevent their immediate destruction, Nu 14:13-20; nevertheless they are assured again and again, in the strongest terms, that none of them but Joshua and Caleb should enter into the land, but their carcasses should fall in the wilderness, even all the murmurers of twenty years old and upwards, Nu 14:21-35; and the ten men that brought the evil report of the good land died of a plague immediately, but the other two lived, Nu 14:36-38; and the body of the people that attempted to go up the mountain and enter the land were smitten and discomfited by their enemies, after they had with concern heard what the Lord threatened them with, Nu 14:39-45.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 14

  • [a]. Ex 15:13-15; Dt 2:25
  • [b]. Nm 9:16-17; Ex 13:21-22; Dt 1:33
  • [c]. Lit people as one man
  • [d]. Ex 32:9-12
  • [e]. Dt 2:25; Jos 2:10; 9:9; Isa 66:19; Hab 3:2
  • [f]. Gn 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:7; Ac 7:5
  • [g]. Ps 86:5; Jl 2:13
  • [h]. Ezr 9:13; Ps 78:38; 85:2; 103:3,10; Isa 43:25; 44:22
  • [i]. Pr 11:21; Jr 25:29; Nah 1:3
  • [j]. Ex 20:5; 34:6-7
  • [k]. Ex 34:9; Ps 25:11; 86:5; Jl 2:13
  • [l]. Ps 72:19; Hab 2:14
  • [m]. Gn 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:7; Ac 7:5
  • [n]. Nm 14:11; Dt 31:20; Ps 74:18
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