Numbers 14:17

And now I beseech, let power be magnified from before the Lord, as Thou hast thus spoken, saying:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

In Context

16Because there was not strength (enough) before the Lord to bring this people into the land which He covenanted to them, He hath killed them in the desert.

18The Lord is far from anger, and great in performing goodness and truth: forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sins, pardoning them who return unto His law: but acquitting not them who will not, turn, (but) visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children unto the third and unto the fourth generation.

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Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:12-20

The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 13 And Moses said unto the Lord , Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of… Read the whole commentary →

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