Numbers 14:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

How long will this

Provoke

Believe me

General references

Exodus 16:28

Numbers 32:10

1 Corinthians 10:5

Bible References

How long will this

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

“How long, O

naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?

And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked thoughts
Lodge within you?

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,

“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?

“For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I have not relented,

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Provoke

shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

Do not harden your hearts, as at

Meribah,

As in the day of

Massah in the wilderness,

Do not harden your hearts as

when they provoked Me,

As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Believe me

But

for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God,

Because they did not believe in God
And did not trust in His salvation.

Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe in His word,

And He *answered them and *said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”

but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

General references

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

So the Lord’s anger burned in that day, and He swore, saying,

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.