CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 14:38 Commentaries: But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newcom.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/numbers/14-38.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcom/numbers/14-38.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/">Commentaries</a> > Numbers 14:38</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/14-37.htm" title="Numbers 14:37">◄</a> Numbers 14:38 <a href="../numbers/14-39.htm" title="Numbers 14:39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>which were</i> of the men that went to search the land, lived <i>still</i>.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/14.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/numbers/14.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/numbers/14.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/numbers/14.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/numbers/14.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/numbers/14.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/numbers/14.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/14.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/numbers/14.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/numbers/14.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/numbers/14.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/numbers/14.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/numbers/14.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/numbers/14.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/numbers/14.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/numbers/14.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/numbers/10-29.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/numbers/14.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/numbers/14.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/numbers/14.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/numbers/14.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/numbers/14.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/numbers/14.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/numbers/14.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/numbers/14.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/numbers/14.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/numbers/14.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/14.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/numbers/14.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/numbers/14.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/numbers/14.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/numbers/14.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/numbers/14.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>14:36-39 Here is the sudden death of the ten evil spies. They sinned in bringing a slander upon the land of promise. Those greatly provoke God, who misrepresent religion, raise dislike in men's minds toward it, or give opportunity to those to do so, who seek occasion. Justly are murmurers made mourners. If they had mourned for the sin, when they were faithfully reproved, the sentence had been prevented; but as they mourned for the judgment only, it did them no service. There is in hell such mourning as this; but tears will not quench the flames, nor cool the tongue.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/14.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>My breach of promise - In the original, a word, found elsewhere only in <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-10.htm">Job 30:10</a>, and meaning "my withdrawals" "my turning away." See the margin. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/numbers/14.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>36-38. those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord—Ten of the spies struck dead on the spot—either by the pestilence or some other judgment. This great and appalling mortality clearly betokened the hand of the Lord.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/numbers/14.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/numbers/14.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,.... Here Joshua is set first, as Caleb is in <a href="/numbers/14-30.htm">Numbers 14:30</a>; which shows that they were equal in dignity, and therefore are indifferently put, sometimes the one first, and sometimes the other: <p>which were of the men that went to search the land; were two of the spies, and were for the tribes of Judah and Ephraim, <a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-6.htm">Numbers 13:6</a>, <p>lived still; were not stricken with death, when the other spies were; though perhaps upon the very spot, and in the same place, and among them, when they were struck dead; but these remained alive, and continued many years after, and entered the good land, and possessed it. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/numbers/14.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Numbers 14:38<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/numbers/14.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>But for the purpose of giving to the whole congregation a practical proof of the solemnity of the divine threatening of punishment, the spies who had induced the congregation to revolt, through their evil report concerning the inhabitants of Canaan, were smitten by a "stroke before Jehovah," i.e., by a sudden death, which proceeded in a visible manner from Jehovah Himself, whilst Joshua and Caleb remained alive. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/numbers/14-38.htm">Numbers 14:38 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../numbers/14-37.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 14:37"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:37" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/14-39.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 14:39"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:39" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>