Numbers 14
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And all 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 congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

only rebel

Deuteronomy 9:7,23,24 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath …

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …

Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned …

Daniel 9:5,9 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, …

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: …

neither

Deuteronomy 7:18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the …

Deuteronomy 20:3 And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day to battle …

are bread

Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength …

Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour …

Psalm 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people …

Psalm 74:14 You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat …

defence. Heb. shadow. Tzillam, a metaphor highly expressive of protection and support in the sultry eastern countries. The Arabs and Persians use the same word to express the same thing; using the expressions, 'May the shadow of thy prosperity be extended.' 'May the shadow of thy prosperity be spread over the heads of thy well-wishers.' And in an elegant distich, 'May your protection never be removed from my head; may God extend your shadow eternally.' The loftiest and most esteemed title of the sultan, says Thornton, because given him by the kings of Persia, is zil ullah, shadow of God.

Psalm 91:1 He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under …

Psalm 121:5 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

Isaiah 30:2,3 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; …

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert …

Jeremiah 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: …

the Lord

Genesis 48:21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, …

Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found …

Deuteronomy 7:21 You shall not be affrighted at them: for the LORD your God is among …

Deuteronomy 20:1-4 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and …

Deuteronomy 31:6,8 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: …

Joshua 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days …

Judges 1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the …

2 Chronicles 13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests …

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

2 Chronicles 20:17 You shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand …

2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help …

Psalm 46:1,2,7,11 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble…

Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …

Isaiah 41:10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

fear them not

Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, …

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

how long will this

Numbers 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against …

Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …

Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments …

Proverbs 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …

Hosea 8:5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against …

Zechariah 8:14 For thus said the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when …

Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, …

provoke

Numbers 14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, …

Deuteronomy 9:7,8,22,23 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath …

Psalm 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of …

Hebrews 3:8,16 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation …

believe me

Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,

Psalm 78:22,32,41,42 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation…

Psalm 106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Mark 9:19 He answers him, and said, O faithless generation, how long shall …

John 10:38 But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you …

John 12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed …

John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, …

Hebrews 3:18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but …

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

they have

Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the …

Joshua 2:9,10 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …

Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were …

are seen

Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in …

Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God …

Exodus 33:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his …

Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the middle …

Deuteronomy 34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like to Moses, whom …

John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is …

John 14:9 Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have …

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now …

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what …

thy cloud

Numbers 9:15-21 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered …

Numbers 10:34 And the cloud of the LORD was on them by day, when they went out of the camp.

Exodus 13:21,22 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead …

Exodus 40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire …

Nehemiah 9:12,19 Moreover you led them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night …

Psalm 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with …

Psalm 105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

my servant

Numbers 14:6-9 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which …

Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up …

Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. …

Deuteronomy 1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will …

Joshua 14:6-14 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the …

another spirit. Caleb had another spirit; not only a bold, generous, courageous, noble, and heroic spirit, but the Spirit and influence of God, which thus raised him above human inquietudes and earthly fears. Therefore he followed God fully; literally, 'and he filled after me;' God shewed him the way he was to take and the line of conduct he was to pursue, and he filled up this line, and in all things followed the will of his Maker. followed me

Numbers 32:11,12 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years …

Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …

Joshua 14:8,9 Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the …

1 Chronicles 29:9,18 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because …

2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not …

Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.

Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …

Ephesians 6:6 Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, …

Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
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

Numbers 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

2 Chronicles 36:21 To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the …

the number

Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It …

Ezekiel 4:6 And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, …

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, …

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy …

shall ye bear

Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, …

Leviticus 20:19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, …

Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they …

Ezekiel 14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity…

ye shall

1 Kings 8:56 Blessed be the LORD, that has given rest to his people Israel, according …

Psalm 77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? does his promise fail for ever more?

Psalm 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

Jeremiah 18:9,10 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning …

Lamentations 3:31-33 For the LORD will not cast off for ever…

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering …

breach of promise, or, altering of my purpose. Tenooathi, rather my failure, or disannulling, from noo, to fail, disannul; for as they had broken their engagements, God was no longer held by his covenant.

Deuteronomy 31:16,17 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

1 Samuel 2:30 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …

Zechariah 11:10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might …

I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

they presumed. This miserable people a short time ago, thought that, though Omnipotence was with them, they could not conquer and possess the land! Now they imagine, that though God himself go not with them, yet they shall be sufficient to drive out the inhabitants, and take possession of their country! Man is ever supposing he can do all things, or do nothing; he is therefore sometimes presumptuous, and at other times in despair.

Numbers 15:30 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …

Deuteronomy 1:43 So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled against the …

the ark

Numbers 10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey…

1 Samuel 4:3-11 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel …

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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