Numbers 14:20-22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I have pardoned So far as not utterly to destroy them. With the glory of the Lord With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people. My glory That is, my glorious appearances in the cloud, and in the tabernacle. Ten times That is, many times. A certain number for an uncertain.

Numbers 14:20-22

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;