Numbers 14:40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord?.... Which was to turn back into the wilderness, and go the way that leads to the Red sea, Num 14:25; instead of which now…
Here is, I. The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord, Num 14:36, Num 14:37. Now,
1. God…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the top of the mountain Perhaps a particular hill in the south of the Negeb, close to Kadesh: but it may denote more generally -the high ground of the hill country."
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