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Numbers 14:11 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verse 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 shewed among them?Numbers 14:11 · King James Version
Numbers 14:11 in context
9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11And 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 shewed among them?
12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- provokenâʼatsto scornH5006 →
- believeʼâmanproperly, to build up or supportH539 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- shewedʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- MosesMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiverH4872 →
- signsʼôwtha signal , as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etcH226 →
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Here is, I. The righteous sentence which God gave against Israel for their murmuring and unbelief, which, though afterwards mitigated, showed what was the desert of their sin and the demand of injured justice, and what would have been done if Moses had not interposed.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-19