Numbers 14:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defencea is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. ”

• Numbers 14:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Their defense - literally, “their shadow,” i. e. their shelter as from the scorching sun: an Oriental figure. Compare the marginal references.

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• Numbers 14:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] (e) bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not. (e) We sha...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  defence. Hebrew. shadow. Note Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6.) Literally "they [are] like our bread (= manna), their shadow hath turned aside from off them.". The manna when out of the shade me...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. Their defense -...

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• Numbers 14:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. Their defen...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Their defence is departed from them. — Literally, their shadow. This is a natural and frequently recurring figure of speech in the East, where protection from the scorching rays of the sun is a b...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Only rebel not ye against the Lord ,.... Nothing, it is suggested, could hinder them from the, possession of it but their rebellion against the Lord; which might provoke him to cut them off by his i...

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• Numbers 14:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not. Ver. 9. They...

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• Numbers 14:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If the Lord delight in us If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to leave and forsake us. They are bread for us We shall destroy them as easily as we eat our bread. Their defe...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They are bread for us; we shall destroy them as easily as we do our bread or common food. Compare Numbers 24:8 Psalms 14:4 . Their defence, i.e. their counsel, conduct, and courage, and espe...

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• Numbers 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Joshua and Caleb Endeavor to Quench the Dissatisfaction

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• Numbers 14:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 13:12 ; 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; 2 Chronicles 20:17 ; 2 Chronicles 32:8 ; Daniel 9:5 ; Daniel 9:9 ; Deuteronomy 20:1-4 ; Deuteronomy 20:3 ; Deuteronomy 31:6 ; Deuteronomy 31:8 ; De...

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• Numbers 14:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Bread — We shall destroy them as easily as we eat our bread. Their defence — Their conduct and courage, and especially God, who was pleased to afford them his protection 'till their iniquities were...

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