Números 14:40

40 Y muy de mañana se levantaron y subieron a la cumbre del monte, y dijeron: Aquí estamos; subamos al lugar que el SEÑOR ha dicho, porque hemos pecado.

Números 14:40 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:40

And they rose up early in the morning
The next morning after they had heard the bad news of their consumption in the wilderness; not being able, perhaps, to sleep that night with the thoughts of it, and being now in a great haste to go up and possess the land of Canaan, as they were before to return to Egypt: and gat them up into the top of the mountain;
which was the way the spies went into the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 13:17 ) ; this they did not actually ascend, as appears from ( Numbers 14:44 Numbers 14:45 ) ; but they determined upon it, and got themselves ready for it: saying, lo, we [be here];
this they said either to one another, animating each other to engage in the enterprise; or to Moses and Joshua, signifying that they were ready to go up and possess the land, if they would put themselves at the head of them, and take the command and direction of them; and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised:
the land of Canaan: for we have sinned;
in not going up to possess it, when they were bid to go, and in listening to the spies that brought an ill report of it, and by murmuring against Moses and Aaron, and the Lord himself, and proposing to make them a captain and return to Egypt, ( Numbers 14:2-4 ) : but this acknowledgment and repentance were not very sincere, by what follows.

Números 14:40 In-Context

38 Pero Josué, hijo de Nun, y Caleb, hijo de Jefone, sobrevivieron de entre aquellos hombres que fueron a reconocer la tierra.

39 Y cuando Moisés habló estas palabras a todos los hijos de Israel, el pueblo lloró mucho.

40 Y muy de mañana se levantaron y subieron a la cumbre del monte, y dijeron: Aquí estamos; subamos al lugar que el SEÑOR ha dicho, porque hemos pecado.

41 Mas Moisés dijo: ¿Por qué, entonces, quebrantáis el mandamiento del SEÑOR, si no os saldrá bien?

42 No subáis, no sea que seáis derribados delante de vuestros enemigos, pues el SEÑOR no está entre vosotros.