Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:35
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.
I the Lord have said,…. Determined, resolved on doing what I have declared, and again repeat it; the decree is absolute and peremptory, and will never be revoked:
I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me; against his ministers, Moses the chief magistrate, and Aaron the high priest; and this is interpreted gathering, conspiring, and rebelling against the Lord himself, on account of which they might be truly called an evil congregation, and therefore it was a determined point with him to destroy them:
in this wilderness they shall be consumed; by wasting diseases:
and there they shall die; as they wished they might, Nu 14:22; with respect to which this was so often repeated, Ex 16:3; and which the Jews interpret not only of a corporeal death, but of an eternal one; for they say c
“the generation of the wilderness (of those that died there) have no part in the world to come, nor shall stand in judgment, as it is said, “in this wilderness”, &c. Nu 14:35.”
c Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
35. I will surely do it In the Hebrew this is the conditional part of an oath. See Num 14:30, note. The threatenings of God are never exaggerations of his real purposes designed merely to intimidate the transgressor, and not to be fully executed.
Against me Unbelief puts a person into the attitude of hostility to God; it is the root of all disobedience. See Joh 3:19; Joh 16:9, notes.
Consumed Utterly destroyed.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
said. See note on Num 3:40. Said on 26 Ab (fifth month, second year). The whole period is contained in Numbers (chapter) 15 and Numbers (chapter) 19; Num 33:19-36, inclusive. See App-50.
shall die. Aaron died on first day of fifth month of fortieth year, Num 20:28; Num 33:38. The second numbering took place after that.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will surely: Num 23:19
this evil: Num 14:27-29, Num 26:65, 1Co 10:5, 1Co 10:11, Heb 3:19
Reciprocal: Exo 23:21 – he will not Num 27:3 – died in the 1Ki 11:11 – I will surely Psa 59:13 – Consume Psa 78:33 – days Psa 90:3 – Thou Eze 11:13 – when Heb 3:11 – I sware