Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
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Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
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Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
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Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 1:42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’ ”
- Joshua 7:8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
- Joshua 7:12 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
- Psalms 44:1-11 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old. You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them. You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob! Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies. You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves. You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before…
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,.... Having removed from the valley, Num 14:25; or else had detached a party to defend the pass on the top of the mountain, and where perhaps they designed to feign a retreat if they found it proper, and draw them into a combat in the valley:
and ye shall fall by the sword: by the sword of the Amalekites and Canaanites:
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because ye are turned away from the Lord: from the word of the Lord, from hearkening to and obeying his command:
therefore the Lord will not be with you; the consequence of which must be bad for them.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 42. For the Lord is not among you —…
42. For the Lord is not among you — His protecting presence will not shield you. In this invisible presence, symbolized by the shekinah, Moses trusted with unwavering confidence. See Exo_33:15. But Israel, alas! did not share his confidence. This warning is prompted by a tender and loving heart, as are all the divine threatenings. They are as a hedge of thorns to keep men from stumbling over the precipice of eternal ruin. “It is not the doing this or that, nor the circumstance of outwardly belonging to Israel, which secures victory over the enemy or possession of the land. It is that Jehovah is among us. The victory is ever of faith.” — Edersheim.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (42) Go not up, for the Lord is not…
(42) Go not up, for the Lord is not among you.—Moses had already received the command which is contained in Num_14:25. He knew, therefore, that the Israelites would not have the guidance of the cloud, the visible token of the Divine presence.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.