Numbers 14:41

41 Moshe said, Why now do you disobey the mitzvah of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

Numbers 14:41 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:41

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
commandment of the Lord?
&c.] Which was to turn back into the wilderness, and go the way that leads to the Red sea, ( Numbers 14:25 ) ; instead of which now they were for going forward into the land of Canaan, though averse to it just before: but it shall not prosper;
their attempt to enter into it.

Numbers 14:41 In-Context

39 Moshe told these words to all the children of Yisra'el: and the people mourned greatly.

40 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.

41 Moshe said, Why now do you disobey the mitzvah of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

42 Don't go up, for the LORD isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

43 For there the `Amaleki and the Kana`ani are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.