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4 Mosebok 14:37
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
those men: Thus ten of the twelve who searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot. In commemoration of this event, the Jews, to this day, celebrate a fast, on the seventh day of the month Elul.
died: Numbers 14:12, Numbers 16:49, Numbers 25:9, Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 28:17, Jeremiah 29:32, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Hebrews 3:17, Jude 1:5
Reciprocal: Numbers 13:32 - brought Numbers 20:3 - when Numbers 22:33 - surely Psalms 91:3 - and from Psalms 91:7 - General Luke 19:27 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land,.... They, and they only at this time:
died by the plague before the Lord; either by the pestilence immediately sent upon them by the Lord, or by a flash of lightning from him, or in some other way; however, by the immediate hand of God, and in his presence, being in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers 14:10; though the Jews differently relate the manner of their death; some say worms came out of their navels, and up to their jaws, and ate them and their tongues; and others that they came out of their tongues, and entered their navels, which they take to be a just retaliation for sinning with their tongues: and the time of their death they differ about; some say, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it was upon the seventh, and others that it was on the seventeenth of Elul or August they died d.
d Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 14:37. Those men that did bring up the evil report - died — Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.
