Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye may not be smitten before your enemies.
Leeser Tanakh
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, Wherefore now do ye transgress the order of the Lord? and it will not prosper.
Cross References
Joshua 7:8I pray thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back 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 shake myself free. But he knew not that the Lord had departed from him.
Psalms 44:1“To the chief musician, for the sons of Korach, a Maskil.” (44:2) O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, deeds which thou hadst done in their days, in times of old.
Psalms 89:43(89:44) Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not let him stand erect 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 →