Numbers 14:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: ”

• Numbers 14:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, (d) rent their clothes: (d) For sorrow, hearing their blasphemy.

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Joshua... and Caleb. Only t wo out of twelve; only two out of the whole congregation. Let us heed the lesson, and take courage. 1 Corinthians 10:11 .

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• Numbers 14:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb. The magnanimity of Joshua is here specified, whereas, before, only Caleb had been praised. But Moses says that they both rent their clothes in token...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 155 THE PEOPLE MURMURING AT THE REPORT OF THE SPIES Numbers 14:6-9 . And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their c...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And Joshua, etc. - See on Numbers 13:33 (note).

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• Numbers 14:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: Joshua ... and Caleb. The two honest spies testified their grief and...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Rent their clothes. — Comp. Leviticus 10:6 and Note.

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is worthy the Reader's notice, the leading arguments the true spies made use of to still the minds of the people; that the LORD not being with their enemies, was a sure token of victory; while on...

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• Numbers 14:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh ,.... Rose up and interposed in this affair, looking upon themselves under a special obligation so to do, as they were capable of confrontin...

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• Numbers 14:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: Ver. 6. Rent their clothes. ] And wept, saith Sulpitius.

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• Numbers 14:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Rent their clothes To testify their hearty grief for the people's blasphemy against God and sedition against Moses, and that dreadful judgment which they easily foresaw this must bring upon the con...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Expostulation of Joshua and Caleb. B. C. 1490.       5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on thei...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To testify their hearty grief for the people's blasphemy against God and sedition against Moses, and that dreadful judgment which they easily foresaw this must bring upon the congregation and people...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua and Caleb Plead With Israel ( Numbers 14:6-9 ). Numbers 14:6 ‘And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.'...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Lord is with us: fear them not. A noble effort to arrest a nation’s rebellion I. Joshua and Caleb were deeply grieved by reason of the rebellion of the nation. II. Joshua and Caleb nobly...

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• Numbers 14:6 - 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 14:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Joshua and Caleb Endeavor to Quench the Dissatisfaction

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• Numbers 14:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 18:37 ; 2 Samuel 3:31 ; Genesis 37:29 ; Genesis 37:34 ; Genesis 44:13 ; Job 1:20 ; Joel 2:12 ; Joel 2:13 ; Joshua 7:6 ; Judges 11:35 ; Matthew 26:65 ; Numbers 13:30 ; Numbers 13:...

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• Numbers 14:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Rent their clothes — To testify their hearty grief for the peoples blasphemy against God and sedition against Moses, and that dreadful judgment which they easily foresaw this must bring upon the co...

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