Numbers 14:8 (BSB)
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
From Numbers 14. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 14:8
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 14:5-10: The friends of Israel here interpose to save them if possible from ruining themselves, but in vain. The physicians of their state would have healed them, but they would not be healed; their watchmen gave them warning, but they would not take warning, and so their blood is upon their own heads. I.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 14:8: If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deu 10:15, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised: a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 14:8: a land flowing with milk and honey--a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country. The two articles specified were among the principal products of the Holy Land.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 14:5-10: Num 14:5-10 At this murmuring, which was growing into open rebellion, Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole of the assembled congregation, namely, to pour out their distress before the Lord, and move Him to interpose; that is to say, after they had made an unsuccessful attempt, as we may supply from Deu 1:29-31, to cheer up the people, by pointing them...