Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
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Gill's Exposition
Then ye answered, and said unto me,.... Not being willing to go into the wilderness again, though they wished they had died in it; nor to go the way of the Red sea, which was their way back again to…
Barnes' Notes
Ye were ready to go up into the hill - Rather, perhaps, “ye made light of going up;” i. e. “ye were ready to attempt it as a trifling undertaking.” Deu 1:43 shows the issue of this spirit in action;…
Moses here makes a large rehearsal of the fatal turn which was given to their affairs by their own sins, and God's wrath, when, from the very borders of Canaan, the honour of conquering it, and the…
Cambridge Bible
We have sinned against the Lord Sam. and LXX add our God: cp. JE, Num 14:40 b, we have sinned.
we will go up and fight we, we Will go up, etc. We ourselves, the doomed generation, and not leave the…