Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 14:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.”
Numbers 14:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, {which were} of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, {is} an exceeding good land.
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