Numbers 14:39,40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

And the people mourned greatly But it was now too late. There was now no place for repentance. Such mourning as this there is in hell; but the tears will not quench the flames. Gat them up Designed or prepared themselves to go up.

Numbers 14:39-40

39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.