Numbers 14:15

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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Judges 6:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:21 - that I may Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because Deuteronomy 32:27 - they should Joshua 3:6 - Take up Joshua 9:9 - we have Judges 6:13 - if the Lord Psalms 90:16 - Let Psalms 115:2 - General Isaiah 48:11 - for how Jeremiah 14:9 - cannot Ezekiel 36:20 - These Daniel 6:20 - able

Cross-References

Genesis 14:2
went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Deuteronomy 15:2
This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD's time of release has been proclaimed.

1 Kings 15:18
So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

Acts 9:2
to ask for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now [if] thou shall kill [all] this people, as one man,.... Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smitten at once, and as thought by the same disease, by the Angel of the Lord in the camp of the Assyrians, in later times,

2 Kings 19:35;

then the nations which have heard the fame of thee; the Egyptians, Canaanites, and others, as Aben Ezra observes; who had heard the report of the wonderful things done by him for Israel, and of the great favours he had bestowed upon them, and so of his power, and goodness, and other perfections displayed therein, which made him appear to be preferable to all the gods of the Gentiles:

will speak, saying; 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.