“ But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. ”
Numbers 14:26-38 (P). The Condemnation of the People to Forty Years-' Wanderings in the Wilderness. This passage comes from P, being parallel to, but divergent from, 11- 25, for both Joshua, an...
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall. — Better, but your carcases, even yours, shall fall. In this wilderness. — The very words which the Israelites themselves had used. (See Number...
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...
the Penalty of Unbelief and Rashness Numbers 14:26-45 The old translation in Numbers 14:34 was unfortunate. “Breach of promise” is rendered in r.v. “my alienation.” It is still better to noti...
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...
Reader! remark with me, with what precision and exactness even in divine judgments, a man's own ways determine the event. The people had waited for the spies' return very patiently 40 days: was it no...
But [as for] you, your carcasses ,.... Which way of speaking seems to be used to distinguish them from their children; they shall fall in this wilderness : which is repeated for the confirmation a...
Your carcasses See with what contempt they are spoken of, now they had by their sin made themselves vile! The mighty men of valour were but carcasses, now the Spirit of the Lord was departed from...
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...
God's Answer to Moses; The Israelites Threatened. B. C. 1490. 20 And the L ORD said,...
No text from Poole on this verse.
Yahweh Now Confirms The Future of the Current Generation of Israelites And How Their Children Must Suffer With Them ( Numbers 14:26-35 ). Later Yahweh came to Moses again and detailed out the posi...
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 14:9 . 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...
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...
The Judgment Pronounced
1 Corinthians 10:5 ; Hebrews 3:17 ; Numbers 14:29
Your carcases — See with what contempt they are spoken of, now they had by their sin made themselves vile! The mighty men of valour were but carcases, now the Spirit of the Lord was departed from t...