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Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the good…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
And disinherit them - By the proposed extinction of Israel the blessings of the covenant would revert to their original donor.
Here is, I. The righteous sentence which God gave against Israel for their murmuring and unbelief, which, though afterwards mitigated, showed what was the desert of their sin and the demand of injured…
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