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Commentaries on Numbers 14:8

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 14 This chapter treats or the murmurings of the children of Israel upon the evil report of the spies, which greatly distressed Moses and Aaron, Numbers 14:1; and of the endeavours of Joshua and Caleb to quiet the minds of the people with a good account of the land, and of the easy conquest of it, but to no purpose, Numbers 14:6; and of the Lord's threatening to destroy the...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deuteronomy 10:15; then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised, a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself hath described it, and as the unbelieving spies themselves had owned it;...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter gives us an account of that fatal quarrel between God and Israel upon which, for their murmuring and unbelief, he swore in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest. Here is, I. The mutiny and rebellion of Israel against God, upon the report of the evil spies, ver. 1-4. II. The fruitless endeavour of Moses and Aaron, Caleb and Joshua, to still the tumult, ver. 5-10. III....