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New Living Translation

Numbers 14:1

Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all 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.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.
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 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

1 Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. "If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!" they complained. 3 "Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?" 4 Then they plotted among themselves, "Let's choose a new 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
The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:2
As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
Isaiah 21:2
I see a terrifying vision: I see the betrayer betraying, the destroyer destroying. Go ahead, you Elamites and Medes, attack and lay siege. I will make an end to all the groaning Babylon caused.
Isaiah 22:6
Elamites are the archers, with their chariots and charioteers. The men of Kir hold up the shields.
Isaiah 37:12
Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!
Jeremiah 25:25
and to the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media.
Ezekiel 32:24
"Elam lies there surrounded by the graves of all its hordes, those who were slaughtered by the sword. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have descended as outcasts to the world below. Now they lie in the pit and share the shame of those who have gone before them.
Daniel 1:2
The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God. So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia and placed them in the treasure-house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
He replied, "To the land of Babylonia, where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket 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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