Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, For Yahweh is not in your midst,—Lest ye be smitten down before your enemies.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 My Lord,—what shall I say, after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?
Judges 16:20And she said—The Philistines, are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and said—I will go out now, as time after time, and shake myself free: he, not knowing, that, Yahweh, had departed from him.
Psalms 44:1O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us,—The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:
Psalms 89:43Yea thou hast turned the edge of his sword, Neither hast thou caused him to stand in the 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 →