Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
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Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
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now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 6:16 Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that none shall escape.
So that none shall escape.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 14:15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this…
Num 14:15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Ver. 15. Kill all this people as one man.] As he can quickly do, with a turn of his hand, with a nod of his head, {Psa 80:16} with a breath of his nostrils. {Job 4:9} He can as soon do it, as bid it be done, "whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only." {Job 34:29}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As one man, i.e. altogether, or to a man;…
As one man, i.e. altogether, or to a man; and suddenly as it were by one blow, as if all had but one neck.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now if thou shall kill all this people, as…
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, Kg2 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:
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will speak, saying; as follows.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain One man. All at once, (Calmet) entirely, without sparing…
One man. All at once, (Calmet) entirely, without sparing so much as one. (Vatable)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Kill all this people — This explains the…
15. Kill all this people — This explains the pestilence in Num_14:12. See note.
The fame of thee — Moses is actuated by the true spirit of prayer — a supreme desire for the glory of God. He is jealous of Jehovah’s honour in the earth. Would that all who pray were filled with the same pious concern!
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 as one man
as one man
Killing them all at the same time is spoken of as killing them as one person. AT: "all at one time" (See: Metaphor)
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desert
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