Numbers 14:42
go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;
Young's Literal Translation
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, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?
Judges 16:20and she saith, 'Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.
Psalms 44:1To the Overseer. — By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.
Psalms 89:43Also — Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in 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 →