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Numbers 14:42 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verse 42
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.Numbers 14:42 · King James Version
Numbers 14:42 in context
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.
42Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- smittennâgaphto push, gore, defeat, stub , inflictH5062 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- amongqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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