Numbers 14:27

27 How long will this wicked community complain against me? I've heard the Israelites' dissent as they continue to complain against me.

Numbers 14:27 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:27

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which
murmur against me?
&c.] Bear with their murmurings, spare them, and not cut them off? how long must sparing mercy be extended to them? the Lord speaks as one weary of forbearing, so frequent and aggravated were their murmurings. The Jews understand this not of the whole congregation of Israel, but of the ten spies, from whence they gather, that ten make a congregation; and they interpret the phrase, "which murmur against me", transitively, "which cause to murmur against me"; made the children of Israel murmur against him, so Jarchi; but rather all the people are meant, as appears from ( Numbers 14:28 ) , and from the following clause:

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against me;
for their murmurings were not only against Moses and Aaron, but against the Lord himself, ( Numbers 14:2 Numbers 14:3 ) .

Numbers 14:27 In-Context

25 Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley, tomorrow turn and march into the desert by the route of the Reed Sea."

26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

27 How long will this wicked community complain against me? I've heard the Israelites' dissent as they continue to complain against me.

28 Say to them, "As I live," says the LORD, "just as I've heard you say, so I'll do to you.

29 Your dead bodies will fall in this desert. None of you who were enlisted and were registered from 20 years old and above, who complained against me,