F Chap. I D 8 U T E RK © N oe Chap. but Moſes could not ſee into their hearts, -nor from what root this | 40 But as for ou, turn ve, and take your journey 1N- | deſire grew: But God faw it, and therefore 12 juſt Jadyamens to the wilderneſs by the way of the Red-ſea. mr [| | complyed with your _ and permitted*them to do fo for their AT Then ye anſwered and ſaid unto-me, * We have NT ial and exerciſe, Numb. 13. I, 2, 3: ; p . | . xp. 14. 40. * Numb: ©"! 4 7 for * they turned and went up into the moun- Linned againit the LORD, hoteg will go up and fight, ac | 13. 24+ 2+ d came 4:10 the valley c of Eſchol 4, and ſearch- cording 'to all that rhe LORD our God commanded us. | || og bf = ES 7 : And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of | ed it out. ; : i : Or. the brook : the word ſignifies both, for b:ooks commonly | War, Ye WEre ready « tO £0 UP into the hill. ; ita Valleys. d (i. e.) Of grapes, ſo called from the goodly cluſter # Or, ye offered your ſelves, or you began, or you earneſil; reſolued and of grapes which they brought from thence, Numb. 13. 23. F attempted. | { , ( | 25 And they took of the fruit e of rhe land in their | 42 And the LORD aid unto me, lay unto them, Go hand, and brought ir down unto us, and brought us | not up, neither fight, for I am not among you w : left ye word again, and ſaid, 1t isa good land f which the | be ſmitten before your encraies. | o- WE "> ?. x With my powerful Preſence and Aftiſtance. | LORD our God doth give unto us. yY.P | | e Grapes, Pomegranates and Figs, Numb. 13. 23. f Which ac- 4.3 50 I ſpake unto you, and ye would not hear, but : |: kn danong coming from its Enemies, ſhould have prevailed | rebelled againſt the commandment of the LORD, and + Heb: 2 with you to go in; more than their diſcouraging words ſhould have | + went preſumptuouſly up into the hill. were pre=| bear you off, becauſc mw Lord who had os _ _ "| 44 And the Amorices which dwelt in that mountain jg unqueſtionably able to ſettle you in 1t in ſpight of all oppoition. hi | / ; * Norwichſtanding ye would not 4,0 up,but rebelled Toft our Ars and chaſed Y v-n- Ire do y, and up, againſt the commandment of the LORDour God. erroyed you 1N dSE1r, evey unto Forman. |» 5 0 Rs 4 ſaid: B $42 As Bees which being provoked come out of their Hives in 27 And ye murmured 1n your tents,and 191d, Becau great numbers, and with great fury purſue and ſting their Adver- the LORD hated us g, he hath brought us forth out of | {ary and Diſturber, Pſal: 118. 12. the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the A- | 45 And ye returned, and wept before the LORD, morites to deſtroy us. but the LORD wculd not hearken to your voice, nor Zz And therefore deſigned to deſtroy us. ' 4.6 | g1ve ear unto you. : FRO 28 Whither jhall we go up? our brethren have T dif- 46 Soye abode in Kadeſh many days, according un- — couraged our heart, ſaying,* The people # greater b and | (9 the days that ye abode there x. | 3:28, 29, taller than we, the cities are great, and walled up tO = (;.e.) As you abode in Kadeſh many, even 45 days, until the 12, 53. Heaven z ; and moreover, we have ſeen the ſons of the | ſpies which you ſent returned to give you an account, fo you alſo *Numb: * Anakirns & there abode there many days, or a long time after, and were not now 13» 28. þ In number and ſtrength and valour. 7 (i.e.) Toa great height, permitted to make any __ th Tv. ds Canaan. A common Hyperbole, as Ge”. 11. 4. Pſal. 107. 26. k The Chil | © - AF. 1. dren of Anak or Enak, See Juaz. 1. 10, 20. c Tier —_ Jr oe, - 7 3-: 4 charge that | they rhe Tj 28> —_ : - . afraid not the Eaomites, 4, 5. nor the Moabites, 9g. nor the Aimonites, 19.. bur _ Then Itaid amps” Ac, Dread _—_ neither be atr are encouraged to fight the Amorites ; they put them to flight, and take of them. poſſeſſion of their Lands, 26 cd
X 20 The LORD your God which goeth before you, | he ſhall fight for you, according to all that he did for |
you in Egypt 1, before your eyes, { Where you were weak, diſpirited, divided, raw and unexpe-
rienced,and in a great meaſure unarmed, and able co do norbing as | gainſt your numerous, porent, united Enemies, bur to ſtand {H11
And therefore now your diſtruſt is | highly unreaſonable, when you have been hardned and fired for | military ſervice by your travels, diſciplined and experienced in | ſome degree as to Martial Affairs, encouraged by frequent and glo-
rious Miracles for 4o years together, and you are going into a |
and ſee the Salvation of (ad.
Country divided into ſeveral Nations and Kingdoms, : Andin the wilderneſs, where thou haſt ſeen how "T6: 63.9. that the LORD thy God * bare thee 22 as a man doth Hoſ: 11. 3- bear his ſon, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
-m Or, carried thee, as a father carries his weak and tender child in his arms, as 1ſa. 49. 22. or as upon Eagles wings, as it 1s, Exod: 19. 4.
through difficulties and dangers, gently leading you according as you were able to go, and ſuſtaining you by his power and goodneſs. |
See of this or the like phraſe, Numb: 11.12. Dewt: 32» 10, 11. Pſal. 91. 12, 1/a: 46. 3, 4. :
32 Yet inthis thing » ye did not believe the LORD your God ; |
2 In this matter which God commanded and encouraged you to do, to wit, in going in confidently to poſſeſs the land. Or, in this
word, whereby God promiſed to fight for you, and affured you of
good ſucceſs. * Bod: 22 * Who went in the way beforeyou, * to ſearch 13.21, Yyou out a place to pitch your tents in fire by night,to * Numb: thew youby what way ye ſhouldgo, & in a cloud by day. E,.??:. _ 34 And the LORD heard che voice of your wordso, 6. _ and was wroth and ſware, ſaying,
o To wit, your murmurings,your unthankful, impatient,diſtruſt ful and rebellious ſpeeches and carriages.
"Numb 25 * Surely there ſball not one of theſe men of this ' 14- 23. Cvil generation ſ:e that good land, which I ſware to give » Pal: 95. unto your fathers 3 | I1, 36 Save Caleb p the ſon of Jephunneh,he ſhall ſee it, | + Heb: and to him will I give the land q that he hath troden
fulfilled to upon, and to his children, becauſe he hath + wholly fol- g0 after. lowed the LORD.
p Under whom Joſhua 1s comprehended,as is manifeſt from v.38. and Numb: 14. 39. though not here expreſſed, becauſe he was not now to be one of the people, but to be ſer over them as chief Go-
"Numb: V<r2our. q That particular part of the Land. Compare Jef: 14. 9.