Numbers 14:42

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?

43The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.

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Cross References

Joshua 7:8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

Judges 16:20And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.

Psalms 44:1Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.

Psalms 89:43Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

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 →

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