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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 14:34
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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After the number of days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, etc.] For so long they were searching it, (<041325>Numbers 13:25); each day for a year; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty years, as in (<260406>Ezekiel 4:6); shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years: which number is given, being a round one, otherwise it was but thirty eight years and a half ere they were all cut off, and their children entered the land: and ye shall know my breach of promise; God never makes any breach of promise; his covenant he will not break, nor alter what is gone out of his lips; men break their promises, and transgress the covenant they have made with him, but he never breaks his, (<198934>Psalm 89:34); this should rather be rendered only, “ye shall know my breach”; experience a breach made upon them by him, upon their persons and families by consuming them in the wilderness: the Targum of Jonathan is, “and ye shall know what ye have murmured against me;” this same word is used in the plural in (<183310>Job 33:10), and is by the Targum rendered “murmurings” or “complaints”; and so the sense is, ye shall know by sad experience the evil of complaining and murmuring against me. The Vulgate Latin version is, “ye shall know my vengeance;” and so the Septuagint, “ye shall know the fury of my anger” which give the sense, though not a literal version of the words.
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