Numbers 14

Numbers 14:33

Fourty years] These fourty years wandring in the Wildernesse, are not to be reckoned from the sending of Spies to search the Land; but from their coming out of Egypt, Num. XXXIII. 3, 38. Josh. IV. 19. Deut. VIII. 2.

This appears also out of the ages of Moses and Aaron, Exod. VII. 7. compared with Num. XXXIII. 39. and Deut. XXXIV. 7. After the Return of the Spies, the Israelites continued in the Wildernesse but thirty eight years, and odde moneths; which yet are said to be fourty years, as the next full number. So Gideons seventy sonnes, Judg.

VIII. 30. are said to be slain, Ch, IX. 5, 18, 56. though Jothan one of them escaped. And so the Disciples are called 11. to whom Jesus appeared on the day of his Resurrection at Evening, when yet Thomas was absent, Mark XVI. 14. Luke XXIV. 33,—40. John XX. 19,—25. compared together. And so the LXX. Elders are said to be gathered, and set round about the Tabernacle, when yet Eldad and Medad came not, Num.

XI. 24. And not unlike is that of Davids reign fourty years, 2 Sam. V. 4, 5. when yet six moneths were over and above. And Solomons Building the Temple in seven years, 1 King. VI. 30. when yet six moneths are to be added, by comparing v. 1. and last.

Numbers 14:45

Hormah] This History at Hormah is another, and divers from that at Hormah, Num. XXI. 1, 2, 3. See another Hormah, Judg. I. 17.