Numbers 14:41

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

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

In Context

40And 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.

42Go not up, for the Shekinah of the Lord is not among you, and be not broken before your enemies.

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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 →

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