Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, for LORD is not among you, that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
In Context
41And Moses said, Why do ye now transgress the commandment of LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?
Cross References
Joshua 7:8Oh, LORD, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him.
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 89:43Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:37-45
Death of the Evil Spies. ( b. c. 1490.) 36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord . 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned… Read the whole commentary →