Numbers 14:16
‘He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.’
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In Context
15may hear that you have killed so great a multitude, as if they were one man, and they may say:
17Therefore, may the strength of the Lord be magnified, just as you swore, saying:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:28Otherwise, perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which you have led us, may say: “The Lord was not able to lead them into the land, which he promised to them. And he hated them; therefore, he led them out, so that he might put them to death in the wilderness.”
Joshua 7:7And Joshua said: “Alas, O Lord God! Why would you want to lead this people over the river Jordan, so that you might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us? I wish that we had remained beyond the Jordan, as when we began.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:12-20
The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 13 And Moses said unto the Lord , Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of… Read the whole commentary →