Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
Berean Standard Bible
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
41But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
Cross References
Joshua 7:8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
Judges 16:20Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 89:43You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in 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 →