Numbers 14:6

6 at vero Iosue filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne qui et ipsi lustraverant terram sciderunt vestimenta sua

Numbers 14:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:6

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh
Rose up and interposed in this affair, looking upon themselves under a special obligation so to do, as they were capable of confronting the other spies, and contradicting what they had said:

[which were] of them that searched the land;
they were two of that number, and were the more concerned to hear such a false account given, and distressed to observe the mutiny of the people, and therefore judged themselves in duty bound to do all they could to stop it:

rent their clothes;
in token of sorrow for the sins of the people; and at their blasphemy and ingratitude against God, and in dread of his wrath and fury breaking forth upon them.

Numbers 14:6 In-Context

4 dixeruntque alter ad alterum constituamus nobis ducem et revertamur in Aegyptum

5 quo audito Moses et Aaron ceciderunt proni in terram coram omni multitudine filiorum Israhel

6 at vero Iosue filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne qui et ipsi lustraverant terram sciderunt vestimenta sua

7 et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israhel locuti sunt terram quam circuivimus valde bona est

8 si propitius fuerit Dominus inducet nos in eam et tradet humum lacte et melle manantem