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Numbers 14:27

in Numbers 14

“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

KJV

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

on Numbers 14:22-27

It is not made worse than really it was, but is shown to be exceedingly sinful. It was an evil congregation, each bad, but altogether in congregation, very bad. They tempted God--tempted his power, whether he could help them in their straits--his goodness, whether he would--and his faithfulness, whether his promise would be performed.

This site's exposition

the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron

on Numbers 14:26-27

The sentence is delivered a second time and this time it is addressed to the people rather than to Moses alone. The word murmur falls three times in one verse, and the chapter uses it five times in all. God says he has heard the murmurings, which answers the assumption in verse 2 that complaining among themselves was a private act.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • מָתַ֗יwhen?

    mataiH4970

  • לָעֵדָ֤הto the congregation

    laedahH5712149 times

  • הָֽרָעָה֙<the> evil

    haraahH7451662 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063603 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֛רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • הֵ֥מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • מַלִּינִ֖ים[are] grumbling

    malinimH388584 times

  • עָלָ֑יon me

    ʾalaiH59215755 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת[the] grumblings of

    telunotH85198 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • הֵ֧מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • מַלִּינִ֛ים[are] grumbling

    malinimH388584 times

  • עָלַ֖יon me

    ʾalaiH59215755 times

  • שָׁמָֽעְתִּי׃I have heard

    shamaetiH80851159 times

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

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

    1 Corinthians 10:10

    And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:2

      All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

    • Numbers 16:41

      The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

    • Numbers 14:37

      those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

    • Philippians 2:14

      Do everything without complaining or arguing,

    • 1 Chronicles 21:15

      Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the…

  • Through

    Numbers 14:11

    And 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?

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:22

      because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 78:32

      In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

    • Psalms 106:24

      They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.