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Numbers 14:17

in Numbers 14

So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

KJV

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

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This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

let the power of my Lord be great

on Numbers 14:17-19

Moses says according as thou hast spoken and then quotes God's own words back to him. What he quotes is the self-description of Exodus 34:6-7, given to him on the mountain after the calf, and he keeps the hard half of it as well as the mild half. This is the earliest place in Scripture where a man prays a sentence of God's own back to God, and the words he chooses are the words spoken to a nation that had just failed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of Lord be great,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The more danger there is of others reproaching God's power the more desirous we should be to see it glorified. To enforce this petition, he refers to the word which God had spoken: The Lord is long-suffering and of great mercy. God's goodness had there been spoken of as his glory;

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

A mitigation of the sentence in answer to the prayer of Moses; they shall not all be cut off, but the decree goes forth ratified with an oath, published to the people, again and again repeated, that this whole congregation should perish in the wilderness, and none of them enter Canaan but Caleb and Joshua only,

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּ֕הand therefore

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • יִגְדַּל־may it be great

    yigdal-H1431 →

  • נָ֖אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • כֹּ֣חַ[the] power of

    koachH3581 →

  • אֲדֹנָ֑י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּ֖רְתָּyou have spoken

    dibartaH1696 →1141 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 9:8

    When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

    it leads to

    • Luke 7:16

      A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”

    • Matthew 15:31

      The crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

    • Acts 4:21

      After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

    • Luke 23:47

      When the centurion saw what had happened, he gave glory to God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”

  • Through

    Micah 3:8

    As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 58:1

      “Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.

    • 1 Corinthians 2:12–13

      We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

    • 1 Corinthians 2:4

      My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

  • Through

    Matthew 9:6

    But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” Then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 43:25

      I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 14 →

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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