Numbers 14:40

And they arose in the morning to go up to the top of the mountain, saying: Behold, we will go up to the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

In Context

39And Mosheh told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people bewailed greatly.

41But Mosheh said, Wherefore do you transgress against the decree of the Word of the Lord? But it will not prosper.

Read all of Numbers 14

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:41Then you answered, and said: We have sinned before the Lord; we will go up and wage war according to all that the Lord our God commanded; and you girded on every man his weapons of war, and began to go up to the mountain.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Numbers 14:40