Numbers 14:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?¹²I will strike them with a plague and destroy them-and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are." ¹³But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them. ¹⁴And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say, ¹⁶'Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.' ¹⁷So now I pray, may the power of the Lord be magnified, just as You have declared: ¹⁸'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.' ¹⁹Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."

Bible Verse Review
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How long will this: Numbers 14:27, Exodus 10:3, Exodus 16:28, Proverbs 1:22, Jeremiah 4:14, Hosea 8:5, Zechariah 8:14, Matthew 17:17

provoke: Numbers 14:23, Deuteronomy 9:7, Deuteronomy 9:8, Deuteronomy 9:22, Deuteronomy 9:23, Psalms 95:8, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:16

believe me: Deuteronomy 1:32, Psalms 78:22, Psalms 78:32, Psalms 78:41, Psalms 78:42, Psalms 106:24, Mark 9:19, John 10:38, John 12:37, John 15:24, Hebrews 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:32 - I will not Exodus 23:21 - provoke him not Numbers 14:22 - which have Numbers 32:10 - General Deuteronomy 9:14 - and I will Nehemiah 9:17 - refused Psalms 4:2 - how Psalms 78:40 - How oft Jeremiah 13:10 - evil Ezekiel 20:13 - I said Mark 16:14 - unbelief Luke 9:41 - how Luke 10:16 - despiseth you Luke 13:8 - let John 4:48 - Except Romans 9:22 - endured 1 Corinthians 10:5 - General Hebrews 11:6 - without 1 John 5:16 - he shall ask

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 14:16
He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.

Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself."

Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

Deuteronomy 28:35
The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Out of the cloud upon the tabernacle:

how long will this people provoke me? which suggests that they had often provoked him, and had done it long ago, and still continued to do so; and he had long bore their provocations; but it was not reasonable, nor could it be expected by Moses or any other, that he would bear them much longer,

and how long will it be ere they believe me; unbelief was a sin they had often and long been guilty of, and which greatly prevailed among them, and was the root of all their murmurings, mutiny, and rebellion; and what was highly provoking to the Lord, since they ought to have believed him, and that he was able to make good, and would make good his promises to them:

for all the signs which I have showed among them; the wonders and miracles he had wrought in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness, and in their sight; on account of which they should have given credit to his word, and which were strong aggravations of their unbelief; and is the true reason why they entered not into the good land, Hebrews 3:18.