Numbers 14:42
do not go up, for YHWH is not in your midst, and you are not struck before your enemies;
Literal Standard Version
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 do I say, after that Israel has turned the neck before its enemies?
Judges 16:20and she says, “Philistines [are] on you, Samson!” And he awakens out of his sleep and says, “I go out as time by time, and shake free”; but he has not known that YHWH has turned aside from off him.
Psalms 44:1TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. O God, we have heard with our ears, || Our fathers have recounted to us, || The work You worked in their days, || In the days of old.
Psalms 89:43Also—You turn back the sharpness of his sword, || And have not established 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 →