Numbers 14:40

Overview - Numbers 14
The people murmur at the news.
Joshua and Caleb labour to still them.
11 God threatens them.
13 Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon.
26 The murmurers are debarred from entering into the land.
36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague.
40 The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten.
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Numbers 14:40  (King James Version)
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
 


rose up
Deuteronomy 1:41 ; Ecclesiastes 9:3 ; Matthew 7:21-23 ; Matthew 26:11 Matthew 26:12 Luke 13:25

for we have sinned
We are sensible of our sin, and repent of it; and are now ready to do as Caleb and Joshua exhorted us. Or, though we have sinned, yet we hope God will make good his promise.