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Numbers 14:42 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies. "

Numbers 14:42

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40 They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned.”

41 Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?

42 Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you.”

44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

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Related Verses

Deuteronomy 1:42

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"The LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”"

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2 Chronicles 13:12

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"Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”"

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Isaiah 52:12

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"For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard."

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2 Samuel 5:23

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"When David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees."

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Deuteronomy 1:26

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"Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God."

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Joshua 10:19

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"but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”"

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Numbers 14:1

"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."

Numbers 14:2

"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"

Numbers 14:3

"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"

Numbers 14:4

"They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”"

Numbers 14:5

"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."

Numbers 14:6

"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes."

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