Numbers 14:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. ”

• Numbers 14:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39. And Moses told all these sayings. It was, indeed, a just cause for mourning, when they heard that God, whose longsuffering they had so wantonly abused, would hereafter be inexorable. Yet...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. The people mourned greatly, х wayit'abluw ( H56 ) haa`aam ( H5971 ) mª'od ( H3966 )...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the people mourned greatly. — It appears from what follows that the sorrow which the Israelites felt was sorrow for the punishment which their sin had entailed, not godly sorrow for the sin its...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  By what follows in the close of the chapter, it appears that this sorrow was not a gracious sorrow for having offended the LORD, but for having lost Canaan. Reader! learn to distinguish between that...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel ,.... That all that had murmured, who were of twenty years old and upwards, should die in the wilderness, and never see nor enter into th...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. Ver. 39. Mourned greatly. ] God gave them somewhat to cry for.

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the people mourned greatly But it was now too late. There was now no place for repentance. Such mourning as this there is in hell; but the tears will not quench the flames. Gat them up Design...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Death of the Evil Spies. B. C. 1490.       36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the la...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Aftermath ( Numbers 14:36-45 ). A number of things followed on Yahweh's words. a The men who brought the evil report died, while Joshua and Caleb lived ( Numbers 14:36-38 ). b Moses told...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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....

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, he announced to them in what manner the Lord intended to punish them; and the people mourned greatly. Although they were now standing o...

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 33:4 ; Hebrews 12:17 ; Isaiah 26:16 ; Matthew 8:12 ; Proverbs 19:3

  Read the comments

• Numbers 14:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And the people mourned greatly — But it was now too late. There was now no place for repentance. Such mourning as this there is in hell; but the tears will not quench the flames.

  Read the comments