Numbers 14:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ”

• Numbers 14:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The syntax of these verses is singularly broken. As did Paul when deeply moved, so Moses presses his arguments one on the other without pausing to ascertain the grammatical finish of his expression...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  my LORD . Jehovah. One of the 134 alterations of the Sopherim. See App-32. Many codices, and first printed edition, read "Jehovah".

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• Numbers 14:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great. He derives another ground of confidence from the vision, in which God had more clearly manifested His nature, from whence it a...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

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• Numbers 14:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Let the power of my Lord be great— That this power of the Lord refers to what follows, is evident to every reader. I cannot, therefore, help greatly approving the following version of Houbigant:...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, Let the power of my Lord be great - be magnified.

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great. — The word Lord in Numbers 14:17 should not be printed in large capitals in this place, as in the Authorised Version of 1611, inasmuc...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Pardon by Moses' Intercession Numbers 14:13-25 Moses was free from selfish ambition. His one thought was for the glory of God. When for a moment the suggestion presented itself to his mind that...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nothing can be more beautiful and interesting, than these pleas of Moses. Reader! remark with me the arguments he makes use of; all which terminate in this one grand consideration; namely, the glory...

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• Numbers 14:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of Lord be great ,.... That is, appear to be great; the power of God is great, not only mighty, but almighty; it knows no bounds, nothing is impossible with hi...

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• Numbers 14:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, Ver. 17. Let the power of my Lord be great. ] In multiplying pardons, Isa 55:8 in passing by the...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Not able His power was quite spent in bringing them out of Egypt, and could not finish the work he had begun and had sworn to do. Let the power of my Lord be great That is, appear to be great; di...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Intercession of Moses. B. C. 1490.       11 And the L ORD said unto Moses, How long wil...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Be great, i.e. appear to be great, discover its greatness; a real verb put for a declarative, or the thing for the manifestation of the thing. And this may be understood either, 1. Of God's power...

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• Numbers 14:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Moses Successfully Intercedes For Them ( Numbers 14:13-19 ). Numbers 14:13-14 ‘And Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it, for you brought up this people in your might from amo...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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....

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Pardon, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of this people. Moses’ expostulation What book but the Bible has the courage to represent a man standing in this attitude before his God and addressing his...

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• Numbers 14:17 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Moses Intercedes for the People

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• Numbers 14:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Micah 3:8 ; Matthew 9:6 ; Matthew 9:8

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• Numbers 14:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Be great — That is appear to be great, discover its greatness: namely, the power of his grace and mercy, or the greatness of his mercy, in pardoning this and their other sins: for to this the follo...

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