Numbers 14:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. ”

Numbers 14:4 - 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 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

captain. At Horeb they made. "calf"; at Kadesh they would make. "captain". Two notable occasions.
Numbers 14:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 154 APOSTASY DEPRECATED Numbers 14:4-5 . And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the ass...
Numbers 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Let us make a captain - Here was a formal renunciation of the authority of Moses, and flat rebellion against God. An...
Numbers 14:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They said one to another, Let us make a captain— We learn from Nehemiah 9:17 that they actually appointed a captain in the height of this their mutiny, insolence, and ingratitude, not only agains...
Numbers 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in th...
Numbers 14:4 - 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 14:4 - 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 14:4 - 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 14:4 - 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 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! stand still, and solemnly review the awful progress of sin. First, it broke out in unavailing cries and tears a whole night. Next, in murmurings against the divine government. Then, in daring...
Numbers 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they said one to another, let us make a captain ,.... An head over them instead of Moses, who they knew would never take the government and care of them, should they resolve to return to Egypt a...
Numbers 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Ver. 4. Let us make a captain. ] Thus they proceeded from bad to worse. Passions, like heavy bodies down steep hi...
Numbers 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A captain Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Nehemiah tells us they actually appointed them a captain. Into Egypt Stupendous madness, insolence, and ingratit...
Numbers 14:4 - 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 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Murmuring of the Israelites. B. C. 1490. 1 And all the congregation lifted up their...
Numbers 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A captain, instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. This was but a purpose or desire, and yet it is imputed to them as if they had done it, Nehemiah 9:16,17 , the...
Numbers 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 14 The Response of The People Leads To Rejection From The Land. It is not difficult to guess at what their decision would be even before we learn of it. They were frightened and therefore...
Numbers 14:4 - 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 14:4 - 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 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Let us return into Egypt. The rewards of the future not to be slighted because of a present inconvenience The proposition of the people illustrates anew the principle that all sin is a species...
Numbers 14:4 - 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 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua and Caleb Endeavor to Quench the Dissatisfaction
Numbers 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:21 ; 2 Peter 2:22 ; Acts 7:39 ; Deuteronomy 17:16 ; Deuteronomy 28:68 ; Hebrews 10:38 ; Hebrews 10:39 ; Hebrews 11:15 ; Luke 17:32 ; Nehemiah 9:16 ; Nehemiah 9:17
Numbers 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A captain — Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Into Egypt — Stupendous madness! Whence should they have protection against the hazards, and provision against a...

Numbers 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 14:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Numbers 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 14:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 14:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes