Numbers 14:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. ”

Numbers 14:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Already Caleb had endeavored to still the people before Moses Numbers 13:30 ; already Moses himself ( Deuteronomy 1:29 ff) had endeavored to recall the people to obedience. After the failure of t...
Numbers 14:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then Moses and Aaron (c) fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. (c) Lamenting the people, and praying for them.
Numbers 14:5 - 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 14:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces. It is doubtful whether they so humbled themselves towards the people, as to he prostrate before them, or whether it was in prayer that they fell...
Numbers 14:5 - 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 14:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly— Either to beseech the people to desist from their rebellion, as Joseph's brethren fell upon their faces before him in order to make thei...
Numbers 14:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces - as humble and earnest suppliants, either...
Numbers 14:5 - 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 14:5 - 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 14:5 - 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 14:5 - 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 14:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is very refreshing to a gracious soul to behold through all this eventful history, how the LORD JESUS in his glorious character of our intercessor, is typified by his servants. The apostle hath gi...
Numbers 14:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces ,.... Through shame and confusion of face for them, at hearing so shocking a proposal made, and such wretched ingratitude expressed; they blushed at it, and...
Numbers 14:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. Ver. 5. Before all the assembly. ] What they said unto them see Deuteronomy 1:29,30...
Numbers 14:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Fell on their faces As humble and earnest supplicants to God, the only refuge to which Moses resorted in all such straits, and who alone was able to govern this stiff-necked people. Before all the...
Numbers 14:5 - 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 14:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Expostulation of Joshua and Caleb. B. C. 1490. 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on thei...
Numbers 14:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As humble and earnest suppliants, either to the people, to entreat them to desist from their wicked and pernicious enterprise; or rather, to God, by comparing this with Numbers 16:4 , Numbers 20:6...
Numbers 14:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Moses and Aaron Plead for Israel ( Numbers 14:5 ). Numbers 14:5 ‘Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.' Moses and Aa...
Numbers 14:5 - 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 14:5 - 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 14:5 - 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 14:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua and Caleb Endeavor to Quench the Dissatisfaction
Numbers 14:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 21:16 ; 1 Kings 18:39 ; Daniel 10:9 ; Ezekiel 9:8 ; Genesis 17:3 ; Joshua 5:14 ; Joshua 7:10 ; Leviticus 9:24 ; Matthew 26:39 ; Numbers 16:22 ; Numbers 16:4 ; Numbers 16:45 ;...
Numbers 14:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fell on their faces — As humble and earnest suppliants to God, the only refuge to which Moses resorted in all such straits, and who alone was able to govern this stiff — necked people. Before all t...

Numbers 14:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Numbers 14:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 14:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 14:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 14:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 14:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 14:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 14:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 14:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes