Numbers 14:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

After

Numbers 13:25

2 Chronicles 36:21

The number

Shall ye bear

Ye shall

Breach of promise

Deuteronomy 31:16

1 Samuel 2:30

Zechariah 11:10

General references

Deuteronomy 1:46

Bible References

After

Forty days later they returned from exploring the land.

This fulfilled the word of Jehovah that was spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

The number

For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.

After you have finished this lie down again. This time lie on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you forty days, a day for each year.

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

Shall ye bear

Only the Levites will do the work at the tent of meeting. They are responsible for their own sins. This is a long lasting law for future generations. They will own no property, as the other Israelites will.

When a man has intercourse with his aunt, both of them must suffer the consequences for incest.

My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

Both of you will suffer for your sins. The prophet will be as guilty as you are when you ask for his help.

Ye shall

THANKS TO JEHOVAH! He has given his people Israel rest, as he has promised. None of the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed to come true.

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

He remembered his holy word to his servant Abraham.

At another time I may promise to build and plant a nation or a kingdom.

Jehovah does not give a man up for a very long time.

While the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear that one of you might come up short and not enter.

Breach of promise

Jehovah said to Moses: You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me all the days of your life.' Now Jehovah says: Far be it from me. I will honor those who honor me. I will not regard those who think little of me.

So I took my staff, Beauty, and broke it in pieces that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

General references

That is why you stayed in Kadesh as long as you did.