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 am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

Provoke

They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

Believe me

But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

But if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.

But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

General references

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.