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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 14:1

Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cowardice;   Disobedience to God;   Government;   Israel;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Courage-Fear;   Cowardice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anakim, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Moses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caleb;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ab, Ninth Day of;   Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
King James Version
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Lexham English Bible
Then all the community lifted up their voices, and the people wept during that night.
New Century Version
That night all the people in the camp began crying loudly.
New English Translation
Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
Amplified Bible
Then all the congregation [of Israel] raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept that night.
New American Standard Bible
Then all the congregation raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept that night.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then all ye Congregation lifted vp their voice, & cryed: and the people wept that night,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
Contemporary English Version
After the Israelites heard the report from the twelve men who had explored Canaan, the people cried all night
Complete Jewish Bible
At this all the people of Isra'el cried out in dismay and wept all night long.
Darby Translation
And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Easy-to-Read Version
That night all the people in the camp began shouting loudly.
English Standard Version
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN all the congregation was in commotion, and lifted up their voices and cried; and the people wept that night.
Good News Translation
All night long the people cried out in distress.
Literal Translation
And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept during that night.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then the whole cogregacion toke on, and cryed, and the people wepte yt night.
American Standard Version
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Bible in Basic English
Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the multitude of the people cried out, and wept throughout that nyght.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
King James Version (1611)
And all the Congregation lifted vp their voyce and cried; and the people wept that night.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.
English Revised Version
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor al the cumpeny criede, and wepte in that nyyt,
Young's Literal Translation
And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
Update Bible Version
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
World English Bible
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
New King James Version
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
New Living Translation
Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.
New Life Bible
Then all the people cried out with a loud voice, and they cried that night.
New Revised Standard
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did all the assembly lift up, and give forth their voice, - and the people wept throughout that night.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
Revised Standard Version
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.
THE MESSAGE
The whole community was in an uproar, wailing all night long. All the People of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The entire community was in on it: "Why didn't we die in Egypt? Or in this wilderness? Why has God brought us to this country to kill us? Our wives and children are about to become plunder. Why don't we just head back to Egypt? And right now!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

Contextual Overview

1Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night. 2All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 11:1-4, Deuteronomy 1:45

Reciprocal: Genesis 45:2 - wept aloud Exodus 13:17 - the people repent Exodus 14:11 - Because Exodus 15:24 - General Exodus 23:2 - follow Exodus 33:4 - they mourned Numbers 11:10 - weep throughout Numbers 16:3 - gathered Numbers 20:3 - God Numbers 21:5 - spake Numbers 32:9 - General Deuteronomy 1:26 - General Deuteronomy 9:7 - from the day Deuteronomy 9:23 - ye rebelled Deuteronomy 20:8 - lest his brethren's 1 Samuel 30:4 - lifted up Job 42:10 - when Psalms 78:32 - they sinned Psalms 106:25 - murmured Proverbs 15:19 - way of the slothful Isaiah 7:2 - And his heart Ezekiel 20:36 - General Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness

Cross-References

Genesis 10:22
Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:2
As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive—from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west.
Isaiah 21:2
A troubling vision is declared to me:“The treacherous one acts treacherously,and the destroyer destroys.Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!I will put an end to all the groaning.”
Isaiah 22:6
Elam took up a quiverwith chariots and horsemen,and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
Jeremiah 25:25
all the kings of Zimri,
Ezekiel 32:24
“Elam is therewith all her hordes around her grave.All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down to the underworld uncircumcised,who once spread their terrorin the land of the living.They bear their disgracewith those who descend to the Pit.
Daniel 1:2
The Lord handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels from the house of God. Nebuchadnezzar carried them to the land of Babylon, to the house of his god, and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
“To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its pedestal.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried,.... This is not to be understood of every individual in the congregation of Israel, but of the princes, heads, and elders of the people that were with Moses and Aaron when the report of the spies was made; though indeed the report might quickly spread throughout the body of the people, and occasion a general outcry, which was very loud and clamorous, and attended with all the signs of distress imaginable, in shrieks and tears and lamentations:

and the people wept that night: perhaps throughout the night; could get no sleep nor rest all the night, but spent it in weeping and crying, at the thought of their condition and circumstances, and the disappointments they had met with, as they conceived, of entering into and possessing the land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

The whole congregation weep at the account brought by the

spies, 1.

They murmur, 2, 3;

and propose to make themselves a captain, and go back to

Egypt, 4.

Moses and Aaron are greatly affected, 5.

Joshua and Caleb endeavour to appease and encourage the

people, 6-9.

The congregation are about to stone them, 10.

The glory of the Lord appears, and he is about to smite the

rebels with the pestilence, 11, 12.

Moses makes a long and pathetic intercession in their behalf,

13-19.

The Lord hears and forbears to punish, 20;

but purposes that not one of that generation shall enter into

the promised land save Joshua and Caleb, 21-24.

Moses is commanded to turn and get into the wilderness by way

of the Red Sea, 25.

The Lord repeats his purpose that none of that generation shall

enter into the promised land-that their carcasses shall fall in

the wilderness, and that their children alone, with Joshua and

Caleb, shall possess the land of the Canaanites, c., 26-32.

As many days as they have searched the land shall they wander

years in the desert, until they shall be utterly consumed, 33-35.

All the spies save Joshua and Caleb die by a plague, 36-38.

Moses declares God's purpose to the people, at which they are

greatly affected, 39.

They acknowledge their sin, and purpose to go up at once and

possess the land, 40.

Moses cautions them against resisting the purpose of God, 41-43.

They, notwithstanding, presume to go, but Moses and the ark

abide in the camp, 44.

The Amalekites and Canaanites come down from the mountains, and

defeat them, 45.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Numbers 14:1. Cried and - wept that night. — In almost every case this people gave deplorable evidence of the degraded state of their minds. With scarcely any mental firmness, and with almost no religion, they could bear no reverses, and were ever at their wit's end. They were headstrong, presumptuous, pusillanimous, indecisive, and fickle. And because they were such, therefore the power and wisdom of God appeared the more conspicuously in the whole of their history.


 
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