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Numbers 14:18-19 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verses 18–19
18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. 19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.Numbers 14:18-19 · King James Version
Numbers 14:18-19 in context
16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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Key words (Strong's)
- longsufferingʼârêklongH750 →
- longsufferingʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
- transgressionpeshaʻa revoltH6588 →
- forgivingnâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- greatnessgôdelmagnitudeH1433 →
- iniquityʻâvônperversityH5771 →
- visitingpâqadto visitH6485 →
- Pardonçâlachto forgiveH5545 →
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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