Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Numbers 14

Num 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

murmured against Moses and against Aaron

Exo 16:2; 17:3; Num 16:41; Psa 106:25.

Num 14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land

Deu 9:7; 20:3; 1Sa 15:22, 23.

the LORD is with us

Gen 48:21; Exo 33:16; Deu 20:1, 3, 4; 31:6-8; Jos 1:5; Jdg 1:22; 2Ch 13:12; Psa 46:7-11; Zec 8:23.

Num 14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

How long will this people provoke me?

Num 14:23; Deu 9:7, 8, 22; Heb 3:8, 16.

Num 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

make of thee a greater nation

Cf. Exo 32:10.

Num 14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

Bible prayers (O.T.). Num 27:15. (Gen 15:2; Hab 3:1-16.)

Then the Egyptians shall hear it

Exo 32:12; Deu 9:26, 27; 32:27.

Num 14:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

filled with the glory of the LORD

Psa 72:19; Isa 66:18, 19; Hab 2:14; Mat 6:10.

Num 14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

tempted

Temptation. Deu 6:16. (Gen 3:1; Jas 1:2.)

Num 14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Kadesh-barnea is, by the unbelief of Israel there, and the divine comment on that unbelief (Numbers 14:22-38; Deuteronomy 1:19-40; 1 Corinthians 10:1-5; Hebrews 3:12-19), invested with immense spiritual significance. The people had faith to sprinkle the blood of atonement (Exodus 12:28) and to come out of Egypt (the world), but had not faith to enter their Canaan rest. Therefore, though redeemed, they were a forty years' grief to Jehovah. The spiritual application is made in Scofield Heb. 6:3-11, note.

Num 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

save Caleb the son of Jephunneh

Num 14:38; Num 26:65; 32:12; Deu 1:36-38; Jos 14:6-15.

Num 14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

presumed to go up unto the hill top

Cf. Jos 7:1-8.