Numeri 14:16

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Omdat de Heer niet bij machte was dit volk in het land te brengen dat hij hun bij eede beloofd had, heeft hij hen in de woestijn geveld.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
De Heer kon dit volk niet in het land brengen, hetgeen Hij hun gezworen had; daarom heeft Hij hen geslacht in de woestijn.

Staten Vertaling
Omdat de HEERE dit volk niet kon brengen in dat land, hetwelk Hij hun gezworen had, zo heeft Hij hen geslacht in de woestijn!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 9:28, Deuteronomy 32:26, Deuteronomy 32:27, Joshua 7:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:7 - which spake Exodus 13:5 - sware Psalms 115:2 - General Isaiah 48:11 - for how Jeremiah 14:9 - cannot Jeremiah 32:22 - which Ezekiel 36:20 - These Ezekiel 47:14 - lifted up mine hand Daniel 6:20 - able

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them,.... That though he brought them out of Egypt, he was not able to bring them through the wilderness into Canaan; and that though he had wrought many signs and wonders for them, he could work no more, his power failed him, he had exhausted all his might, and could not perform the promise and oath he had made:

therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness; because he could not fulfil his word, and so made short work of it, destroying them all together, which Moses suggests would greatly reflect dishonour on him; and in this he shows, that he was more concerned for the glory of God than for his own.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The syntax of these verses is singularly broken. As did Paul when deeply moved, so Moses presses his arguments one on the other without pausing to ascertain the grammatical finish of his expressions. He speaks here as if in momentary apprehension of an outbreak of God’s wrath, unless he could perhaps arrest it by crowding in every topic of deprecation and intercession that he could mention on the instant.