Numbers 14:8,9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 defence Their conduct and courage, and especially God, who was pleased to afford them his protection, till their iniquities were full, is utterly departed from them, and hath given them up as a prey to us. The Lord is with us By his special grace and almighty power, to save us from them and all our enemies. Only rebel not against the Lord Nothing can ruin sinners but their own rebellion. If God leave them, it is because they drive him from them, and they die, because they will die.

Numbers 14:8-9

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9 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.