Numbers 14:44 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. ”

• Numbers 14:44 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But they (r) presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. (r) They could not be stayed by any means.

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• Numbers 14:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  presumed to go up . were presumptuous to go up. Compare idiom, Numbers 35:31 . Genesis 2:3 ; Genesis 31:27 ; Deuteronomy 1:42 ; Deuteronomy 1:43 .

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• Numbers 14:44 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  44. But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top. It was not, indeed, their intention deliberately to array themselves against God, but rather did they endeavor to appease Him by this means...

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• Numbers 14:44 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 158 PRESUMPTION OF THE REBELLIOUS ISRAELITES Numbers 14:44 . But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top. THERE are principles in the human heart of which few people are aware. One...

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• Numbers 14:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

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• Numbers 14:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But they presumed, &c.— "They loftily presumed, or took on them, by violence, with a lofty presumptuous mind. The word עפל, whose primary signification is a tower or fort, signifieth al...

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• Numbers 14:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. The ark of the covenant of the Lord ... departed not o...

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  They presumed to go up. — i.e., they made a bold attempt to ascend the mountain. Their enemies appear to have encountered and discomfited them before they had actually gained the summit.

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe, the LORD had commanded the people to go back towards the way by the Red Sea. But they, self-willed and presumptuous, wilt go up towards Canaan. Alas! what a continual perverseness there is i...

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• Numbers 14:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top ,.... In a bold, audacious, and presumptuous manner; they attempted to go up to the top of the hill, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Moses against i...

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They presumed; guilty both of rashness and rebellion; thus running from one extreme to another.

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - 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 14:44 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But they presumed to go up. A presumptuous enterprise and its disastrous termination In these verses we have an illustration of-- 1. The sad perversity of sinful human nature. 2. The conf...

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• Numbers 14:44 - 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 14:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Disobedience of the People Punished

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• Numbers 14:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 4:3-11 ; Deuteronomy 1:43 ; Numbers 10:33 ; Numbers 15:30

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