and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
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.
Commenting on Numbers 14:5-10
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,.... To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them: saying, the land which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land; they observe that they were of the number of the spies that were appointed and sent to search the land of Canaan, and they had searched...
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...
Commenting on Numbers 14:5-10