1 Beyond the mountain at the foot whereof they now were, v.45. And this clauſe is added, cither r. as an aggravation of Iſrael's mi- ſery and puniſhment, that being now ready to enter and take poſ- ſcion of the land they are forced ro go back into the wilderneſs : or 2. as ait argument to oblidge them more willingly to- obey the tollowing command of returning into the wilderneſs, becauſe their enemies were very near them, and ſevered from them only by that l1iumean mountain, and, if they did nor ſpeedily depart, their ene- mes would hear of them and fall upon them,and ſo the evil which before they cauleleſly feared would come upon them ; they, their w1ves and their children would become a prey to the Amalekites and Canaonites, becauſe God had forſaken th:m and would nor affiſt nor defend them. The verſe may be rendered thus, And or But, for the preſent, the Amalekite, and the Canaanite dwell in the valley ; there- fore ( which particle is here underſtood, as it is in othe: places) to morrow turn ye, ©, Though ſome knit theſe words to the former, and read the place thus, Caleb and his ſeed ſhall poſſeſs it, to vat, the land near Hebron, and alſo, the land of the Amalekites, and of the Canaamtes that dwell in the valley. Queft. But how are the Canaanites ſaid ro dwell in the valley, here, when they dwelt in the hill, v. 45. and by the ſea-coaſts, Numb. 21. 1? Auf. 1. Part 0: them dwelt in one place, and part in other places. - 2. The word, Canaanite, may here be underſtood more generally of all the inhabitants of Canaan. » (7.e.) That leadeth to the Red-ſea, and to Egypt, the place whi- ther you deſire to return, wv. 3, 4-
26 And the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, and unto Aa- ron, ſaying, |
27 How long ſhall I bear with o this evil congregation which murmur againſt me ? I have heard the murmu- rings of the children of Iſrael which they murmur a- gainfſt me.
0 Or, pardon, as v. 19, 29. or ſpar? : which words are neceſſarily
and eaſily underſtood. Iris a ſhort and imperfe& ſpeech, which is frequent in caſe of anger, as Exod. 32, 32. Pſal. 6. 3.an4go. 1
28 day unto them,* As truly as I live. faith the LORD
as * ye have ſpoken p in mine ears, ſo will I do td youg : 65.and |
> When you wickedly wiſhed you might have died in the wil- derneſs,v.3. q I will bring your 1mprecations upon your heads. 2) Your carcaſes jhall fall in this wilderneſs, and all that were numbred of you, according to your whole number,from ewenty years old and upward which have murmured againſt me, 30 Doubtleſs ye ſhall not come into the land concer#- ing which I + ſware to make you r dwell therein, ſave
| Calebthe ſon of Jephunneh,and Joſhua the ſon of Nun,
r (z.e.) Your Nations ; for God did not ſwear to do ſo to theſe
_ particular perſons.
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3 1 But your little ones which ye ſaid ſhould be a prey, them wall I bring in, and they ſhall know the land
' which ye have diſpiſed.
32 Bur as for you, your carcaſes they ſhall fall in this wilderneſs.
33 And your children ſhall || wander 5 jn the wilder-
neſs fory years t,and bear your whoredoms « until your Carcaſes be walted in the wilderneſs.
s Like ſheep feeding in the deſerts : or, ſhall be ſhepherds, 5. e. | Iive like the ſhepherds of Arabia, in tents = —— from boo to place, having no certain dwelling. # (7.e. ) So long as to make up the time of your dwelling in the wilderneſs forty years, as ap- pears from Numb. 33.8. Deut. 1. 3. and 2, 14. Compare Amor i. 24. It is manifeſt, that one whole year and part of another were paſt be- fore this ſin or judgment. « (/.e.) The puniſhment of your whore-
; doms, to wit, of your Apoſtacy from, and perfidiouſneſs againſt , your Lord, who was your husband,and had married you to himſelf,
wilderneſs,and have tempted me now theſe ten times f,
and have not hearkened to my voice ;
e (7. e.) My glorious appearances in the cloud, and in the Ta- bernacle. f (i. e.) Many times. A certain number for an uncertain, as Gen: 31: 7. Levit: 26: 8. Joh: 19: 3. Though ſome reckon ten times preciſely, wherein they did eminently provoke God.
23 * Þ Surely they (hall not ſce che land which I ſware unto their fachers,neither ſhall any of chem that _— provoked me, fee it :
_— 24 But my ſervant * Caleb g, becauſe he had ano- Heb.3.17. ther ſpirit with him h, and hath followed me fully z ; + Heb. if him will T bring into the land, whereinto he went |, rad the and his ſeed {hail poflels it /. - Joſh £ Joſhua is not here named, becauſe he was not now among the 6 8 -14- people, but a conſtant atrendant upon Moſes, nor was he to be reck- 19:9- onedas one of them, any more than Afſes and Aaron were, becaule he was to be their chief commanuer, þ (:. e. ) Was a man of ano- ther temper, and carriage, faitiiful and couragious, nor a&ed by that evil ſpirit of Trowardize, unbeliet, unthankfulneſs, difobedi- ence, which ruled in hus brethren, byt by the ſpirit of God, 7 (7 e.)
* Deur.
3.39. Pſal.gs.
' ye bear your iniquities - e 22 Becauſe all thoſe men which have ſeen my glo- : Y y quiries ; even forty years,
; » That as you have firſt broken the covenant berween
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See Fer. 3. 14. Whence Idolatry is called whoredom,.
34*Afcer the number of the days in which ye ſearched the land, even * forty days (each day fora year #) ſhall
and ye ſhall
know || my breach of promiſe z. , x So there ſhould have been 40 years to come, but God was pleaſed mercifully ro accepr of the time paſt as a part of that time.
: N t you and me, by breaking re 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 wherewirh you charged me, wer. 3. lies at your dcor, and was forced from me by your pertidiouſneſs. Or
my breach, either paſſively, 7. e. your: breaking off from me, as ſuch pronouns are oft uſed, as Gen. 50. 1.-4ſa.55.11.and 56. 7. or attive- ly, /.e. my breaking of or departing from you, and ſtoping the current of my bleſhings toward you : you ſhall feel by experience, how fad your condition is when F withdraw my grace and favour trom you.
35 I the LORD have ſaid, I will ſurelie do ic unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together, againſt me ; in this wilderneſs they ſhall be conſumed,- and there they ſhall die,
36 And the men whom Moſes fene to fearch the land: who returned, and made all the congregation to mur mur againſt him, by bringing up a flander upon the land
2 B 37 Even