Numbers 14:17

15 Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,

16 ‘Because the Lord was not ^aable to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’

17 And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,

18 ^a‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, ^bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

19 ^aPardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, ^baccording to the greatness of Your mercy, just ^cas You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

20 Then the Lord said: “I have pardoned, ^aaccording to your word;

21 but truly, as I live, ^aall the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord—

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Numbers 14:13-17

The syntax of these verses is singularly broken. As did Paul when deeply moved, so Moses presses his arguments one on the other without pausing to ascertain the grammatical finish of his expressions. He speaks here as if in momentary apprehension of an outbreak of God' s wrath, unless he could perhaps arrest it by crowding in every topic of deprecation and intercession that he could mention on the instant.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 14:17:

Exodus 32:7-35
Jeremiah 7:16
Micah 3:8

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