Numbers 14:13

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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And Moses said unto the Lord: From this verse to Numbers 14:19, inclusive, we have the words of the earnest intercession of Moses: they need no explanation; they are full of simplicity and energy.

Then the: Exodus 32:12, Deuteronomy 9:26-28, Deuteronomy 32:27, Joshua 7:8, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 106:23, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:25 - that he Numbers 11:2 - prayed Numbers 12:13 - General 1 Samuel 12:22 - for his great 2 Samuel 7:23 - went 1 Kings 8:51 - thy people Job 23:4 - fill my mouth Job 42:10 - when Psalms 99:6 - they called Psalms 106:8 - he saved Isaiah 63:11 - Where is he that brought Jeremiah 15:1 - Moses James 5:16 - The effectual

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 14:24
I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me-Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion."

Genesis 39:14
she called her household servants. "Look," she said, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

Genesis 40:15
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon."

Genesis 41:12
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.

Genesis 43:32
They served Joseph's brothers separately from him and the Egyptians who ate with him, because Egyptians would not eat with Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.

Exodus 2:6
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew children."

Exodus 2:11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Numbers 21:21
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

1 Samuel 4:12
That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said unto the Lord,.... In an abrupt manner, as the following words show, his mind being greatly disturbed and distressed by the above threatening,

then the Egyptians shall hear [it]; that the Lord had smitten the Israelites with the pestilence; the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of the children of the Egyptians who were suffocated in the sea:

for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them; they were once sojourners among them, and slaves unto them, and they were delivered from them by the mighty hand of the Lord upon the Egyptians, destroying their firstborn; and therefore when they shall hear that the Israelites were all destroyed at once by a pestilence in the wilderness, it will be a pleasure to them, as follows.

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.