Numbers 14:42
in Numbers 14Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
KJV
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
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This verse in Numbers 14
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites
on Numbers 14:39-42
They mourn, and early the next morning they do the thing they refused to do the day before. Moses calls this transgressing the commandment of the LORD, because the command had changed overnight to turn back.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
With the glory of the Lord - With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people. My glory - That is, my glorious appearances in the cloud, and in the tabernacle. Ten times - That is, many times.
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you,....
And this is written for our admonition, that we "fall not after the same example of unbelief." The Murmuring of the Israelites. 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain--Notwithstanding the tidings that Moses communicated and which diffused a general feeling of melancholy and grief throughout the camp, the impression was of very brief continuance.
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The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַֽל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תַּעֲל֔וּ | taalu | you go up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| כִּ֛י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֵ֥ין | ʾein | not | H369 → | 789 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם | bekirbekhem | [will be] in midst your | H7130 → | 227 times |
| וְלֹא֙ | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִּנָּ֣גְפ֔וּ | tinagefu | you will be defeated | H5062 → | |
| לִפְנֵ֖י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃ | ʾoyeveikhem | enemies your | H341 → | 282 times |
אַֽל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תַּעֲל֔וּyou go up
taaluH5927 →890 times
כִּ֛יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֵ֥יןnot
ʾeinH369 →789 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם[will be] in midst your
bekirbekhemH7130 →227 times
וְלֹא֙and not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
תִּנָּ֣גְפ֔וּyou will be defeated
tinagefuH5062 →
לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃enemies your
ʾoyeveikhemH341 →282 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Joshua 7:12This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be…
it leads to
- Psalms 5:4–5
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
- Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
- Joshua 6:18
But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and…
- Judges 2:14
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they…
- Psalms 5:4–5
Through
Joshua 7:8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
it leads to
- Romans 3:5–6
But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
- Ezra 9:10
And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
- Romans 3:5–6
Through
Deuteronomy 1:42But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
it leads to
- Joshua 7:8–13
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- Joshua 7:8–13
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
