After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
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After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
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After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure.
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 4:6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
- Numbers 13:25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
- Jeremiah 18:9-10 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
- Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Deuteronomy 31:16-17 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
- 1 Samuel 2:30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Psalms 95:10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
- Zechariah 11:10 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
- Hebrews 4:1 Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
- Leviticus 20:19 “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.
- Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
- 1 Kings 8:56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
- Psalms 38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- Psalms 77:8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- Psalms 105:42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
- Lamentations 3:31-33 For the Lord will not cast off forever. For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
- Ezekiel 14:10 They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;
- Revelation 11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whether my promise be true or no.
Whether my promise be true or no.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 14:34 After the number of the days in…
Num 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Ver. 34. My breach of promise,] i.e., Ye shall find to your cost, what it is to charge me with breach of promise, through unbelief.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Each day for a year; so there should have…
Each day for a year; so there should have been forty years to come, but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of that time.
My breach of promise, that as you have first broken the covenant between you and me, by breaking the terms or conditions of it, so I will make it void on my part, by denying you the blessings promised in that covenant, and to be given to you in case of your obedience. So you shall see that the breach of promise wherewith you charged me, Num 14:3, lies at your door, and was forced from me by your perfidiousness. Or, my breach; either passively, i.e. your breaking off from me, as such pronouns are oft used, as Gen 1:4; Isa 53:11; 56:7; or actively, i.e. my breaking off or departing from you, and stopping the current of my blessings towards you; you shall feel by experience how sad your condition is when I withdraw my grace and favour from you.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I the Lord have said,.... Determined, resolved on doing…
I the Lord have said,.... Determined, resolved on doing what I have declared, and again repeat it; the decree is absolute and peremptory, and will never be revoked:
I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me; against his ministers, Moses the chief magistrate, and Aaron the high priest; and this is interpreted gathering, conspiring, and rebelling against the Lord himself, on account of which they might be truly called an evil congregation, and therefore it was a determined point with him to destroy them:
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in this wilderness they shall be consumed; by wasting diseases:
and there they shall die; as they wished they might, Num 14:22; with respect to which this was so often repeated, Exo 16:3; and which the Jews interpret not only of a corporeal death, but of an eternal one; for they say (c)"the generation of the wilderness (of those that died there) have no part in the world to come, nor shall stand in judgment, as it is said, "in this wilderness", &c. Num 14:35.''
(c) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Each day for a year - So there should…
Each day for a year - So there should have been forty years to come, but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of that time. Ye shall know my breach of promise - That as you have first broken the covenant between you and me, by breaking the conditions of it, so I will make it void on my part, by denying you the blessings promised in that covenant. So you shall see, that the breach of promise wherewith you charged me, lies at your door, and was forced from me by your perfidiousness.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. After the number of the days] The…
Verse 34. After the number of the days] The spies were forty days in searching the land, and the people who rebelled on their evil report are condemned to wander forty years in the wilderness! Now let them make them a captain and go back to Egypt if they can. God had so hedged them about with his power and providence that they could neither go back to Egypt nor get forward to the promised land! God has provided innumerable spiritual blessings for mankind, but in the pursuit of earthly good they lose them, and often lose the others also! If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the fruit of the land, but not otherwise; unless for your farther punishment God give you your portion in THIS life, and ye get none in the life to come. From so great a curse may God save thee, thou money-loving, honour-hunting, pleasure-taking, thoughtless, godless man!
And ye shall know my breach of promise.] This is certainly a most harsh expression; and most learned men agree that the words את תנואתי eth tenuathi should be translated my vengeance, which is the rendering of the Septuagint, Vulgate, Coptic, and Anglo-Saxon, and which is followed by almost all our ancient English translations. The meaning however appears to be this: As God had promised to bring them into the good land, provided they kept his statutes, ordinances, c., and they had now broken their engagements, he was no longer held by his covenant and therefore, by excluding them from the promised land, he showed them at once his annulling of the covenant which they had broken, and his vengeance because they had broken it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 14:34. Each day for a year — So…
Num 14:34. Each day for a year — So there should have been forty years to come, but God was pleased mercifully to accept of the time past as a part of that time. Ye shall know my breach of promise — That as you have first broken the covenant between you and me, by breaking the conditions of it, so I will make it void on my part, by denying you the blessings promised in that covenant. Thus you shall see that the breach of promise wherewith you charged me, lies at your door, and was forced from me by your perfidiousness.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain My breach of promise - In the original, a…
My breach of promise - In the original, a word, found elsewhere only in Job 30:10, and meaning “my withdrawals” “my turning away.” See the margin.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Revenge. Hebrew, "my breach of promise, or if my…
CHAPTER XIV.
Revenge. Hebrew, "my breach of promise, or if my threats be vain," &c. Septuagint, "you shall know the fury of my anger." (Calmet) --- I will convince you by the severity with which I shall execute this sentence, that you had no reason to distrust my former promises. St. Jerome (in Ezec. xx.) entertains hopes of the eternal salvation of many of these Hebrews, who had time to do penance for their sins.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ye shall know my breach of promise--that is, in…
ye shall know my breach of promise--that is, in consequence of your violation of the covenant betwixt you and Me, by breaking the terms of it, it shall be null and void on My part, as I shall withhold the blessings I promised in that covenant to confer on you on condition of your obedience.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 34. Forty days… forty years — Thus the sin…
34. Forty days… forty years — Thus the sin of the spies and the unbelief of the nation would be vividly set before them as the cause of their exclusion from Canaan. At every question, “How long?” the mind would revert to the forty days’ search by the spies, to their majority report, and to the slough of despond into which the people fell at Kadesh.
Shall ye bear your iniquities — In the next verse we find an explanation of bearing iniquities. “In this wilderness shall they be consumed, and there shall they die.” “The weight of guilt is so great that they stagger under it in crooked ways for many years, till they sink exhausted with the weary load. The transition is very easy from the idea of bearing sin to that of bearing punishment.” — Bibliotheca Sacra. As Prof. Park expresses it, “Sin presses the sinner down in punishment and into punishment.”
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My breach of promise — Here is but one Hebrew word, t’nooah, used elsewhere only in Job_33:10, and rendered occasions. It literally signifies removal or alienation, the withdrawal of one’s self from a person, and so metaphorically expresses enmity. Hence the strong rendering of the Septuagint, τον θυμον της οργης μου, the vehemence of my anger, and of the Vulgate, ultionem meam, my vengeance. Luther’s translation, though more correct, is not so concise and vigorous — What it shall be when I withdraw my hand. The breach of promise is induced by the wilful and persistent disobedience of Israel in refusing to carry out Jehovah’s purpose of love. His immutability requires him to treat unbelievers as rebels. The justice of their punishment is vindicated by their own contumacy.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. my alienation] my opposition. Ye shall experience what…
34. my alienation] my opposition. Ye shall experience what it means to be opposed and hindered by me. The subst. occurs in Job_33:10 only. For the verb cf. Num_30:6 (R.V. ‘disallow’), Num_32:7 (R.V. ‘discourage’).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34) Even forty days, each day for a year.—The…
(34) Even forty days, each day for a year.—The numbering which is recorded in chapter 26 took place after the death of Aaron, which happened on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the exodus (Num_33:38). Hence it follows that the year and a half which had elapsed since the exodus must be included in the forty years of shepherd life in the wilderness.
My breach of promise.—The noun which is thus rendered occurs only in one other place, viz., Job_33:10. The cognate verb, however, occurs several times in this book in the sense of refuse, disallow, or hinder. (See Num_30:5; Num_30:8; Num_30:11; Num_32:7.) The meaning here appears to be rejection or alienation.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain After the number of the days... each day for…
After the number of the days... each day for a year. It is said, and truly, that the connection between the two periods was arbitrary, and that the apparent correspondence lay only upon the surface. Exactly for this reason it was the better fitted to fix itself in the mind of a nation incapable of following a deeper and more spiritual analogy of guilt and punishment. It served the purpose which God had in view, viz., to make them feel that the quantity as well as the quality of their punishment was entirely due to themselves; and it needed no other justification. If God assigns reasons at all, he assigns such as can be understood by those to whom he speaks. Ye shall know my breach of promise. ytiaWnT. The noun only occurs elsewhere in Job_33:10, but the verb is found in Num_32:7 in the sense of "discouraging," or "turning away" (Septuagint, inati diastrefete ). Here it must mean "my withdrawal," or "my turning aside, from you." They should know by sad experience that "with the froward" God will "show" himself "froward". (Psa_18:26)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 bear the consequences of your sins
bear the consequences of your sins
"suffer the consequences of your sins" or "suffer because of your sins"
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They will be completely cut off
This probably means that they will no longer exist. AT: "they will come to an end" or "they will all be destroyed" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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sin
adversary
Yahweh
evil
consume
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:34 each day: Cp. 13:25. • to have me…
14:34 each day: Cp. 13:25. • to have me for an enemy: Cp. Ezek 5:8; 21:3.
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