Numbers 14:42
Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;
Darby Translation
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 now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!
Cross References
Joshua 7:8Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have 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 thought, I will go out as at other times before, and disengage myself. And he knew not that Jehovah had departed from him.
Psalms 44:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
Psalms 89:43Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him 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 →