Bible Commentary

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. If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to loathe and forsake us. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole 8. a land … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:8”

And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land. And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,…. To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them: saying, the land which … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:7”

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: Num 14:6-9 The Lord is with us: fear them not. A noble effort to arrest a nations rebellion I. Joshua and Caleb were deeply grieved by reason of the rebellion of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:6”

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. Already Caleb had endeavored to still the people before Moses Num 13:30; already Moses himself (Deu 1:29 ff) had endeavored to recall the people to obedience. After the failure of these efforts Moses and Aaron … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:5”

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Num 14:4 Let us return into Egypt. The rewards of the future not to be slighted because of a present inconvenience The proposition of the people illustrates anew the principle that all sin is a species of insanity. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:4”

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? 3. wherefore is Jehovah about to bring us ] The rebellious spirit is more flagrantly expressed in Deu 1:27. Fuente: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:3”

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! 2. would that we had died ] ‘God’ does not form part of the Heb. expression. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:2”

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 1. the congregation ] A word peculiarly characteristic of P . lifted up their voice ] lifted up and uttered their voice. The multiplication of verbs and of subjects in Num 14:1-2 seems to be due to the fusion … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 14:1”

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 33. the Nephilim ] Mentioned in Gen 6:4 in connexion with the ‘sons of Elohim,’ but not elsewhere in the O.T. The derivation and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:33”

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. 32. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:32”