but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
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but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
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But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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But in very deed, as I live — and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD —
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
- Psalms 72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
- Isaiah 6:3 One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
- Isaiah 49:18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
- Matthew 6:10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
- Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
- Ezekiel 18:3 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.
- Ezekiel 33:11 Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’
- Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Jeremiah 22:24 “As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.
- Ezekiel 33:27 “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he who is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 14:21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all…
Num 14:21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Ver. 21. But as truly as I live.] This is an oath, as appears by comparing herewith Psa 95:11. To blame therefore are they that use it so often.
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All the earth shall be filled.] I will make me a great name abroad; and even of those maidservants, the heathens, which thou hast spoken of, shall I be had in honour, as he said in another case. {2Sa 6:22}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. With the report of the glorious and righteous…
i.e. With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people in manner following. That this is the true sense, appears both from the particle of opposition, and the solemn introduction of them.
But truly as I live, and from the following verses, because all these men, &c, which come in without any note of opposition, and have a manifest relation to and connexion with this verse.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Because all those men which have seen my glory,....…
Because all those men which have seen my glory,.... His glorious Majesty, or the emblem of it in the cloud, on the tabernacle, which had often appeared to them, and the glorious things done by him; the glory of his power, wisdom, goodness, faithfulness, and truth, displayed in bringing them out of Egypt, through the Red sea, and thus far in the wilderness, even to the borders of the land of Canaan; it should be rendered, not "because", but "that", for this is the thing sworn to, or the matter of the oath:
and my miracles which I did in Egypt; by the hand of Moses, both before them, when he was sent to them, as a proof of his divine mission, and before Pharaoh and all his court, Exo 7:10, inflicting plagues upon him and his people, Exo 7:20,
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and in the wilderness; in raining manna from heaven about their tents, Exo 16:14; sending them quails, Exo 16:13; and giving them water out of the rock, Exo 17:6,
and have tempted me now these ten times; which the Jews understand precisely and exactly of such a number, and which they reckon thus (w); twice at the sea, Exo 14:11; twice concerning water, Exo 15:23; twice about manna, Exo 16:2; twice about quails, Exo 16:12; once by the calf, Exo 32:1; and once in the wilderness of Paran, Num 14:1, which last and tenth was the present temptation: these are reckoned a little otherwise elsewhere (x); but perhaps it may be better, with Aben Ezra, to interpret it of many times, a certain number being put for an uncertain, they having frequently tempted the Lord:
and have not hearkened to my voice; neither to his word of promise, nor to his word of command, and particularly his late order to go up and possess the land, Deu 1:21.
(w) T. Bab. Eracin, fol. 15. 1. Bartenora in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 4. Jarchi in loc. (x) Maimon. in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 4.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain With the glory of the Lord - With the…
With the glory of the Lord - With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. All the earth shall be filled, c.]…
Verse 21. All the earth shall be filled, c.] כל הארץ kol haarets, all THIS land, i. e., the land of Canaan which was only fulfilled to the letter when the preaching of Christ and his apostles was heard through all the cities and villages of Judea. It does not appear that the whole of the terraqueous globe is meant by this expression in any of the places where it occurs connected with this promise of the diffusion of the Divine light. See Ps 72:19; Isa 40:5; Hab 2:14.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Render: But as truly as I live, and as…
Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Num 14:22 all those men, etc.; Num 14:23 shall not see, etc.
Num 14:22
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These ten times - Ten is the number which imports completeness. Compare Gen 31:7. The sense is that the measure of their provocation was now full: the day of grace was at last over. However, some enumerate 10 different occasions on which the people had tempted God since the exodus.
Ps. 90, which is entitled “a Prayer of Moses,” has been most appropriately regarded as a kind of dirge upon those sentenced thus awfully by God to waste away in the wilderness.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Lord. I will surely punish the guilty; and all…
Lord. I will surely punish the guilty; and all the earth shall know that their own crimes, and not my imbecility, prevented their taking possession of Chanaan. My glory shall shine both in my long-suffering, and in the effects of my justice. Let me pass for a dead god, like the idols, if I do not perform what I say.
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).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain all the earth shall be filled with the glory…
all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord--This promise, in its full acceptation, remains to be verified by the eventual and universal prevalence of Christianity in the world. But the terms were used restrictively in respect to the occasion, to the report which would spread over all the land of the "terrible things in righteousness" [Psa 65:5] which God would do in the infliction of the doom described, to which that rebellious race was now consigned.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21-23. All the earth shall be filled — In…
21-23. All the earth shall be filled — In the version of King James these verses are incorrectly translated and punctuated. Better thus: “Nevertheless, as truly as I live, and the glory of Jehovah will fill the whole earth, all the men who have seen my glory and my miracles… shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,” etc. See the R.V. The verb “will fill” is the Hebrew for the present tense continuing in the future, (see Num_14:20, note,) and its clause is grammatically an apposition to “as I live.” Jehovah proves his being by his works; his living, by his glory now and forever filling the whole earth.
Have tempted me — By doubting his help and by clamouring for additional proofs that his word is true, men are said to tempt or try God. Again, it is evident that unbelief is the damning sin. Num_14:11, note.
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Ten times — Gen_31:7, note. Ten symbolizes completeness and full measure. The rabbins thus reckon up the actual ten: (1.) The murmuring at the Red Sea, Exo_14:11-12. (2.) At Marah, Exo_15:24. (3.) In the wilderness of Sin, Exo_16:2. (4.) At Rephidim, Exo_17:2. (5.) The idolatry at Horeb, Exodus 32. (6.) Complaining at Taberah, Num_11:1. (7.) At the graves of lust, Num_11:4. (8.) Here at Kadesh. (9 and 10.) The disobedience of certain individuals in respect to the manna, Exo_16:20; Exo_16:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. and as all the earth &c.] A second…
21. and as all the earth &c.] A second oath to strengthen the following statement. Psa_72:19 perhaps contains a direct reference to the words.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain As truly as I live, all the earth shall…
As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Rather, "as truly as I live, and the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth." Both clauses are dependent on and the second is but the necessary correlative of the first.
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