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Numbers 14:13 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verse 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;)Numbers 14:13 · King James Version
Numbers 14:13 in context
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;)
14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- EgyptiansMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- MosesMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiverH4872 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
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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