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Wesley's Explanatory Notes on Numbers 14:5

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John Wesley (1703–1791) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Fell on their faces - As humble and earnest suppliants to God, the only refuge to which Moses resorted in all such straits, and who alone was able to govern this stiff - necked people. Before all the assembly - That they might awake to apprehend their sin and danger, when they saw Moses at his prayers, whom God never failed to defend, even with the destruction of his enemies. Numbers 14:6
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