Numbers 14:39

39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.

Numbers 14:39 in Other Translations

39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

39 When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

39 When Moses reported the LORD ’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.

39 When Moses told all of this to the People of Israel, they mourned long and hard.

39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

39 When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly, as if someone had died.

39 When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.

39 Moses reported to all of the people of Israel what the LORD had said. And they became very sad.

Numbers 14:39 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:39

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel,
&c.] That all that had murmured, who were of twenty years old and upwards, should die in the wilderness, and never see nor enter into the land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were: and the people mourned greatly;
because of their unhappy case, that they should be cut off by death in the wilderness, and be deprived of the enjoyment of the good land; their sorrow seems to have been not a godly sorrow, or true repentance for sin committed, but a worldly sorrow that works death; it was not on account of the evil of sin, the pardon of which they did not seem to seek after, but on account of the evil that was likely to come to them by it.

Numbers 14:39 In-Context

37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.

38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.

39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.

40 Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country, saying, “Now we are ready to go up to the land the LORD promised. Surely we have sinned!”

41 But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the LORD’s command? This will not succeed!

Cross References

• 1. ver 28-35
• 2. S Exodus 33:4