By what follows in the close of the chapter, it appears that this sorrow was not a gracious sorrow for having offended the LORD, but for having lost Canaan. Reader! learn to distinguish between that sorrow which worketh death, and that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; 2 Corinthians 7:10.
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Numbers 14:39
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.