Numbers 14

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AND let us return] which God had expressely forbidden them, Deuteronomy 17:16. Because that Egypt being the figure of spirituall bondage, God would have the people to have it for a perpetuall document, to abhor to return under the old bondage of sun, out of which God of his grace had freed them: and also that such a glorious effect of his power might never be annihilated.

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Fell on their] To prepare the people with their humility, to give over this enterprise, or to pray to God to turne them from it by his spirit and power, Numbers 16:4; Numbers 20:6.

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Rent] In token of extream grief and anger.

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If the Lord] It wee do not provoke him to wrath by our sins.

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They are bread] God hath given them into our hands to destroy them, and to get all their goods Their defence] the Italian hath it, their shadow] their protection and safety; which had hitherto been nothing but Gods patience; their measure being not yet ful heaped, Genesis 15:16. to make an opposition between those accursed people, abandoned of God, and the children of Israel, which lived secure under the shadow of the cloud. See Exodus 32:25. Is, 22. 8. Micah 1:1-16. 1.

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The glory] Some extraordinary light & brightnes; signe of Gods glorious presence, in the cloud come down lower, and spread above the Tabernacle, see Ex. 26, 16, 17. and 40. 34. Leviticus 9:23. Num. 16. 19. 42. and 20. 6.

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For thou] I fear lost the Egyptians, upon whom thou hast hitherto glorified thy self, in the deliverance of thy people, now take an occasion to blaspheme thee, by reason of their destruction.

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Art seen] In the signes of thy presence, though not in any visible likenes, Deuteronomy 4:15. which was reserved for Moses alone. Numbers 12:8.

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As one man] At once at one stroak.

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I beseech thee let the] Accomplish thy work, to shew that nothing can be done contrary to thy will.

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Cleering] The pardon to which I am inclined, is not an indisterency, or connivence at sin, which I always late and punish, in all those that continue in it through impenitency: and cause the very repentants, after I have remitted them their punishments, as I am judge, to feele my fatherly corrections, and punishments. See. Exodus 23:7.

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I have pardoned] I doe remit unto them the punishment of present and universall death, dnbunced by my threatnings, v. 12.

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All the earth] As I am jealous to maintaine the glory of my justice, and providence over all the World, much more will I be jealous in doing it in the middest of my people. Others, all the earth shall be, or ought for to be filled: that is to say, as I will by my works, and finally by my word be known and worshipped all the world over, for what I am, so I will by effects make it knowne to them, to whom I have already revealed my self.

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Tempted me] See upon Exodus 17:2 ten times] that is to say very often, as Genesis 31:7, yet some will take this in its proper signification.

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Caleb] which whom s Joshua also to be understood, as v. 30. and 38.Spirit] hath been moved and inspired by a better spirit; namely, by Gods spirit.Followed 〈◊〉] hath believed in m with an entire heart, without varying or wavering Whereinto] see upon Numbers 13:33.

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The Amalekites] since I have consented unto thee, not to destroy this people upon a suddain, take heed lest they run from themselves into ruine voluntarily; going on against mighty enemies without mine ayd Canaanites] these are the Canaanites of the mountaines, or the Amorites: being different from the Canaanites which were by the sea coasts, Num. 13. 31. and 21. 1 In the valley]Beyond the hill where you now are Of the red sea] Toward Egypt, whereunto you had conspired to return.

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As you have spoken] Namely, desiring to die in the desert, v. 2.

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Doubtlesse ye shall not] The Italian hath it, if you doe come into] A shortned kind of an oath To make you dwell] Namely, your Nation in generall.

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Wander] The Italian hath it, shall seed] leading heards-mens lives, without any firme habitation as the Arabians in the wildernesse. Others, wandring like sheep in the pastures Fourty] untill the fourtieth yeare after the comming out of Egipt; because that after this threatning, untill they came into the land of Canaan there were but eight and thirty yeares, Deuteronomy 2:14 Whoredome] That is to say, idolatries, which are the spirituall fornications of the soule, by a breach of faith to God, wherein the people are taxed to have failed often in the wildernesse, Num. 15 39 Deuteronomy 32:17. Amos 5:25. Acts 7:43.

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Each daie for a yeare] The Italian, Each year for a day] See Ezech. 4. 6 My breach The Italian, I will break] A kind of humane speech, that is to say, I shew you, that my promises made in generall to my people, doe not belong to unbelievers and rebells, but onely to them which observe the conditions of my covenant, and towards them onely shal my promises never change nor alter.

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By the plague] Of some strange, suddaine, and violent death, sent supernaturally by the Lord; some take it to be the plague it selfe.

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Transgresse] For God had comanded them to turne their faces towards the red sea, v. 25.

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The Arke] By which was to be guided every removall in this voyage. See Numbers 10:33.

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Hormah] A place called by anticipations see Numbers 21:3.