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Numbers 14:39 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verse 39
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.Numbers 14:39 · King James Version
Numbers 14:39 in context
37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- sayingsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- mournedʼâbalto bewailH56 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- MosesMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiverH4872 →
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Here is, I. The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord, Num 14:36, Num 14:37. Now, 1. God hereby showed his particular displeasure against those who sinned and made Israel to sin.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 36-45