Numbers 14:45 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. ”

• Numbers 14:45 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Unto Hormah - literally, “the Hormah:” i. e. “the banning,” or “ban-place.” Compare Numbers 21:3 ; Joshua 12:14 . According to the view taken of Kadesh (see Numbers 13:26 ), Hormah is identifi...

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• Numbers 14:45 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Hormah . destruction.

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• Numbers 14:45 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].

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• Numbers 14:45 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. The Amalekites ... and the Canaanites - (see the note at D...

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• Numbers 14:45 - 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 14:45 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then the Amalekites came down... — The words “which dwelt in that hill” may refer to the Canaanites only, or to the Amalekites and the Canaanites, and may denote either permanent residence or tempo...

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• Numbers 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the Amalekites came down ,.... The hill; met the Israelites as they ascended: and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill; the same with the Amorites, one of the seven nations of Canaan, Numb...

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• Numbers 14:45 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah. Ver. 45. And smote them. ] To be out of God's precincts, is to...

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• Numbers 14:45 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Canaanites Largely so called, but strictly the Amorites. Hormah A place so called afterward, ( Numbers 21:3 ,) from the slaughter or destruction of the Israelites at this time.

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• Numbers 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The Canaanite; largely so called, but strictly the Arnorite, as appears from Deuteronomy 1:44 . Which dwelt; so they were a part and branch of those that dwelt in the valley, Numbers 14:25...

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• Numbers 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - 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 14:45 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Disobedience of the People Punished

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• Numbers 14:45 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 1:44 ; Deuteronomy 32:30 ; Exodus 17:16 ; Joshua 7:11 ; Joshua 7:12 ; Joshua 7:5 ; Judges 1:17 ; Numbers 21:3 ; Numbers 14:43

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• Numbers 14:45 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The Canaanites — Largely so called, but strictly the Amorites. Hormah — A place so called afterwards, Numbers 21:3 , from the slaughter or destruction of the lsraelites at this time.

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