4 Mosebok 14:34

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Såsom I under fyrtio dagar haven bespejat landet, så skolen I under fyrtio år -- ett år för var dag -- komma att bära på edra missgärningar; I skolen då förnimma vad det är att jag tager min hand ifrån eder.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

After: Numbers 13:25, 2 Chronicles 36:21

the number: Psalms 95:10, Ezekiel 4:6, Daniel 9:24, Revelation 11:3

shall ye bear: Numbers 18:23, Leviticus 20:19, Psalms 38:4, Ezekiel 14:10

ye shall: 1 Kings 8:56, Psalms 77:8, Psalms 105:42, Jeremiah 18:9, Jeremiah 18:10, Lamentations 3:31-33, Hebrews 4:1

breach of promise: or, altering of my purpose, Tenooathi, rather, my failure, or disannulling, from noo, to fail, disannul; for as they had broken their engagements, God was no longer held by his covenant. Deuteronomy 31:16, Deuteronomy 31:17, 1 Samuel 2:30, Zechariah 11:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:1 - shall bear Deuteronomy 1:46 - General Joshua 14:10 - forty Joshua 24:7 - ye dwelt Judges 2:1 - I will never Nehemiah 9:21 - forty Psalms 59:13 - Consume Isaiah 20:3 - three Ezekiel 4:4 - thou shalt bear Ezekiel 23:35 - therefore Amos 2:10 - and led Acts 13:18 - about Revelation 11:2 - forty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After the number of days in which ye searched the land,

[even] forty days,.... For so long they were searching it,

Numbers 13:25;

each day for a year; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty years, as in Ezekiel 4:6;

shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years: which number is given, being a round one, otherwise it was but thirty eight years and a half ere they were all cut off, and their children entered the land:

and ye shall know my breach of promise; God never makes any breach of promise; his covenant he will not break, nor alter what is gone out of his lips; men break their promises, and transgress the covenant they have made with him, but he never breaks his, Psalms 89:34; this should rather be rendered only, "ye shall know my breach"; experience a breach made upon them by him, upon their persons and families by consuming them in the wilderness: the Targum of Jonathan is,

"and ye shall know what ye have murmured against me;''

this same word is used in the plural in Job 33:10, and is by the Targum rendered "murmurings" or "complaints"; and so the sense is, ye shall know by sad experience the evil of complaining and murmuring against me. The Vulgate Latin version is,

"ye shall know my vengeance;''

and so the Septuagint,

"ye shall know the fury of my anger''

which give the sense, though not a literal version of the words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 14:34. 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.