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Numbers
Chapter 14
1~~And
all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
{acclamation of agreement}
and
the people cried all that night
{not much of a way for people of God to respond - they will be
disciplined}.
{Human
Viewpoint Expression of Unbelief and Misery}
2~~And
all the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and
against Aaron and the whole congregation said unto them,
"
'O if only that' {luw'} we had died in the land of Egypt!
or
'O if only that' {luw'} we had died in this desert!"
{Rationalization
of Their Fear - We Fear for Our Wives and Children}
3~~And
why has the Jehovah/God brought us unto this land,
to
fall by the sword,
that
our wives and our children should be a prey?
Were
it not better for us to return into Egypt?
{Note: This is an example of God's sense of humor. These cry babies will not go in and conquer. But it is these very children who will be preserved by God and in 40 years, they will take the land.}
{Rather
Go Back into Slavery}
4~~And
they said one to another,
"Let
us make a captain/leader, and let us return into Egypt."
{Took
the matter to the Lord}
5~~Then
Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
before
all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
{Minority
Report Continues}
6~~And
Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
who
were of them that searched the land,
ripped/'tore
up' their clothes
{expression to show anger and the people - an attention getter}.
{Divine
Viewpoint}
7-9~~And
they {Joshua and Caleb}
spoke
unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,
"The
land, which we passed through to search it,
is
an exceedingly good land.8~~
If
Jehovah/God delight in us,
then
He will bring us into this land, and give it us . . .
a
land which flows with milk and honey {very prosperous}.9~~
Only
rebel not you against the Jehovah/God,
neither
fear you the people of the land
for
they are bread for us
{idiom meaning 'we will eat them up!'}.
Their
defense is departed from them,
and
Jehovah/God is with us.
Fear
them not."
{People's
Human Viewpoint Desire and God Appears}
10~~But,
in contrast, all the congregation wanted to stone them with stones
{why? For expressing divine viewpoint!}.
{Appearance
of the Lord To Stop the Mob Violence}
And
the glory of the Jehovah/God
appeared
in the tabernacle of the congregation
before
all the children of Israel.
{God
Speaks to Moses}
11~~And
the Jehovah/God said unto Moses,
"How
long will this people provoke me?
And
how long will it be before they believe Me?
For
all the signs which I have showed among them?"
12~~"I
{God} will smite them with the disease/pestilence,
and
disinherit them,
and
will make of you
a
greater nation and mightier than they."
13~~And
Moses said unto the Jehovah/God,
"Then
the Egyptians shall hear it,
(for
You brought up this people in Your might from among them)."
14~~"And
they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land
for
they have heard that You Jehovah/God are among this people,
that
You Jehovah/God are seen face to face,
and
that Your cloud stands over them,
and
that you go before them,
by
day time in a pillar of a cloud,
and
in a pillar of fire by night."
15-16~~"Now
if you will kill all this people as one man,
then
the nations which have heard the fame of You will speak,
saying,
16~~
'Because
Jehovah/God was not able to bring this people into the land
which
He swore unto them,
therefore
He has slain them in the desert."
17~~"And
now, I beseech you,
let
the power of my Lord/'Adonay be great,
according
as You have spoken, saying, 18~~
'The
Jehovah/God 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.' "
19~~"Pardon,
I beseech you,
the
iniquity of this people
according
unto the greatness of your mercy,
and
as you have forgiven this people,
from
Egypt even until now."
20~~And
the Jehovah/God said,
"I
have pardoned according to your word."
21~~"But
as truly as I live,
all
the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Jehovah/God."
22~~"Because
all those men which have seen My glory,
and
My miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the desert,
and
have tempted Me now these ten times,
and
have not hearkened to My voice."
23~~"Surely
they shall not see the land
which
I swore unto their fathers,
neither
shall any of them that provoked Me see it."
24~~"But
My servant Caleb,
because
he had another spirit with him {idiom for positive volition},
and
has followed me fully,
him
will I bring into the land where into he went
and
his seed shall possess it.
25~~(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
"Tomorrow
turn you,
and
get you into the desert by the way of the Red sea."
26-27~~And
the Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses
and
unto Aaron, saying, 27~~
"How
long shall I bear with this evil congregation,
which
murmur against me?
I
have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,
which
they murmur against me."
28~~"Say
unto them, As truly as I live, said the Jehovah/God,
as
you have spoken in My ears,
so
will I do to you."
29~~"Your
carcasses shall fall in this desert
and
all that were numbered of you,
according
to your whole number,
from
twenty years old and upward,
which
have murmured against Me."
30~~"Doubtless
you shall not come into the land,
concerning
which I swore to make you dwell therein,
save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
and
Joshua the son of Nun."
31~~"But
your little ones,
which
you said should be a prey,
them
will I bring in,
and
they shall know the land which you have despised."
32~~"But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this desert."
33~~"And
your children shall wander in the desert forty years,
and
bear your whoredoms,
until
your carcasses be wasted in the desert."
{Why
40 years in the Desert?}
34~~"After
the number of the days
in
which you searched the land, even forty days,
each
day for a year,
shall
you bear your iniquities, even forty years,
and
you shall know My postponement of promise."
35~~"I
Jehovah/God have said,
'I
will surely do it unto all this evil congregation,
who
are gathered together against Me.
In
this desert they shall be consumed,
and
there they shall die.' "
36~~And
the men, who Moses sent to search the land,
who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by
bringing up a slander upon the land, 37~~
even
those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land,
died
by the plague before the Jehovah/God.
38~~But
Joshua the son of Nun,
and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
who
were of the men that went to search the land, kept on living.
39~~And
Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel
and
the people mourned greatly.
40~~And
they rose up early in the morning,
and
got them up into the top of the mountain, saying,
'Lo,
we be here, and will go up unto the place
which
the Jehovah/God has promised
for
we have sinned.'
41~~And
Moses said,
"Why
now do you transgress the commandment of the Jehovah/God?
It
shall not prosper."
42~~Go
not up, for the Jehovah/God is not among you
that
you be not smitten before your enemies.
43~~For
the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,
and
you shall fall by the sword
because
you have turned away from the Jehovah/God,
therefore
the Jehovah/God will not be with you.
44~~But
they presumed to go up unto the hill top
{going to attack anyway}.
Nevertheless
the ark of the covenant of the Jehovah/God,
and
Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45~~Then
the Amalekites came down,
and
the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill,
and
smote them, and 'crushed them to pieces',
even
unto Hormah
{a town of the Canaanites, conquered by Joshua, allotted to Judah,
and located in the south of Judah}.
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