Numbers 14:42
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
Cross References
Joshua 7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath 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.' But he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.
Psalms 44:1(44-1) For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. (44-2) O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 89:43(89-44) Yea, Thou turnest back the edge of his sword, and hast 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 →