Numbers 14:17

Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,

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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

16'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, he has killed them in the wilderness.'

18'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'

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Cross References

Micah 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, 1 and am full of justice and might, 1 to declare to Jacob his transgression, 1 and to Israel his sin. 1

Matthew 9:8When the crowds saw this, they were amazed and praised God, who had given such authority to people.

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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