Numbers 14:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. ”

Numbers 14:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the (a) people wept that night. (a) Those who were afraid at the report of the ten spies.
Numbers 14:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:1-10 (P). The People's Discouragement at the Report of the Spies. This section is also a fusion of JE and P: its composite character is suggested by the repetitions in Numbers 14:1...
Numbers 14:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

lifted up their voice. Hebrew idiom "lifted up and gave their voice". Genesis 21:16 ; Psalms 18:13 . Jeremiah 2:15 . Psalms 104:12 ; Psalms 77:18 ; Habakkuk 3:10 . cried . cried aloud. What....
Numbers 14:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. And all the congregation lifted up their voice. Here we see how easily, by means of a few incentives, sedition is excited in a great multitude; for the people, unless governed by the coun...
Numbers 14:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. Cried; and - wept that night - In almost every case this people gave deplorable evidence of the degraded sta...
Numbers 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. All the congregation lifted up their voice - not literally the whole, because there were some except...
Numbers 14:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Discouragement of the People and Sentence of Forty Years' Wandering 9. Bread for us] cp. Numbers 13:32 ; Numbers 22:4 ; Numbers 24:8 . 12 . Cp. Exodus 32:10 , where a similar promise is made...
Numbers 14:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE SPIES AND THEIR REPORT Numbers 13:1-33 ; Numbers 14:1-10 Two narratives at least appear to be united in the thirteenth and fourteenth Chapter s. From Numbers 13:17 ; Numbers 13:22-23 , w...
Numbers 14:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

an Unbelieving and Rebellious People Numbers 14:1-12 What in any other nation would have been described as a panic of fear, was, in the case of Israel, a panic of unbelief, which deserved the r...
Numbers 14:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The people were swayed by the opinion of the majority. The call was distinctly heard and the desirability of obedience comprehended. But walled cities appeared impregnable and enemies as giants. The...
Numbers 14:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS This is a most interesting Chapter, and as an apostle had it in commission from the HOLY GHOST, to tell the church that the written account of Israel's history was intended for our example,...
Numbers 14:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried ,.... This is not to be understood of every individual in the congregation of Israel, but of the princes, heads, and elders of the people tha...
Numbers 14:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. Ver. 1. And the people wept that night. ] As being too light of belief: the lies of the spies they took f...
Numbers 14:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ISRAEL REFUSES THEIR INHERITANCE (vs.1-10) The discouraging words of the ten spies infected the whole congregation of Israel, as a discouragement too frequently does among God's people. They wept...
Numbers 14:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Murmuring of the Israelites. B. C. 1490. 1 And all the congregation lifted up their...
Numbers 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

NUMBERS CHAPTER 14 The children of Israel murmur against Moses and Aaron, Numbers 14:1-4 . Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua go to appease the people, Numbers 14:5-9 ; wherefore the people woul...
Numbers 14:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 14:4 . Let us make a captain . It appears from Nehemiah 9:17 , that they actually appointed another leader. Numbers 14:5 . Fell on their faces , &c....
Numbers 14:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:9 . They are bread for us; a Hebraicism. In Hosea 4:8 , we read that the priests ate up the sins of the people. As the fire licked up the water in the trenches, 1 Kings 18:38 ; as the...
Numbers 14:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

The people wept. Truths in tears I. That to entrust the important affairs of society to the conduct of men of an inferior type is a great evil. Feeble-minded, and mean-hearted men, at the head...
Numbers 14:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE REBELLION AT KADESH (continued) ( Numbers 13:1-4 , Numbers 14:1-4 ). Numbers 14:1 And the people wept that night. As the spies repeated their dismal tidings, each...
Numbers 14:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept that night; they moaned and shrieked and shed bitter tears and behaved altogether like men and women whose last hope in l...
Numbers 14:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:45 ; Numbers 11:1-4

Numbers 14:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 14:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 14:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 14:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 14:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 14:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 14:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge