Numbers 14:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. ”

Numbers 14:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And disinherit them - By the proposed extinction of Israel the blessings of the covenant would revert to their original donor.
Numbers 14:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:11-25 (JE). Yahweh's Threat to Disinherit the People, and Moses-' Intercession for them. This section is derived from JE, as appears from the exemption of Caleb only ( Numbers 14:2...
Numbers 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers 14:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will smite them with the pestilence— See Exodus 9:15 ; Exodus 9:35 where a similar transaction is expressed in a similar manner. It appears from Numbers 14:15 that Moses understood this denu...
Numbers 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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? The Lord said ... I will smi...
Numbers 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. — A similar promise had been given to Moses on occasion of the rebellion at Sinai, and Moses on that occasion interceded with God on b...
Numbers 14:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE DOOM OF THE UNBELIEVING Numbers 14:1-45 THE spirit of revolt which came to a head in the proposal to put Joshua and Caleb to death was quelled by the fiery splendour that flashed out at the...
Numbers 14:12 - 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 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe, how everything of grace and mercy is made to pass through Moses. Herein reader! do not overlook Moses as a type of the ever blessed JESUS. See Isaiah 42:1 .
Numbers 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them ,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the g...
Numbers 14:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. Ver. 12. And I will make of thee a greater nation. ] Here God offered Mos...
Numbers 14:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will smite them This was not an absolute determination, but a commination, like that of Nineveh's destruction, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, or powerful intercessio...
Numbers 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Intercession of Moses. B. C. 1490. 11 And the L ORD said unto Moses, How long wil...
Numbers 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This was not an absolute determination, as the event showed, but only a condition, like that of Nineveh's destruction within forty days, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, o...
Numbers 14:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh Declares That He Has Had Enough of These People ( Numbers 14:11-12 ). Numbers 14:11-12 ‘And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not belie...
Numbers 14:12 - 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 14:12 - 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 14:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

I will smite them. .. and will make of thee a greater nation. Proffer of Jehovah, and answer of Moses This is the second time that Jehovah, in His holy anger, had proposed to deal thus with Mos...
Numbers 14:12 - 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 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses Intercedes for the People
Numbers 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 24:1 ; 2 Samuel 24:12-15 ; Exodus 32:10 ; Exodus 5:3 ; Numbers 16:46-49 ; Numbers 25:9
Numbers 14:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I will smite them — This was not an absolute determination, but a commination, like that of Nineveh's destruction, with a condition implied, except there be speedy repentance, or powerful intercess...

Numbers 14:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 14:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 14:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 14:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 14:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes