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Numbers 32:8 Cross-References
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“Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.”
Numbers 32:8 (KJV)
Commentary on Numbers 32:8
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea (כֹּה עָשׂוּ אֲבֹתֵיכֶם בְּשָׁלְחִי אֹתָם מִקָּדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ)—Moses invokes Israel's darkest hour: the spy report that triggered forty years of wilderness wandering (Numbers 13-14). The parallel is devastating: that generation chose visible obstacles over God's promise; this generation chooses visible pasture over God's inheritance. The phrase 'your fathers' distances them from patriarchal faith (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) while connecting them to faithless rebels.Kadesh-barnea represents the perpetual temptation to stop short of God's pu...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Numbers 32:8
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“and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw”
“Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!”
“You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.”
“that they may spy out the land of Canaan”