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the Red Sea, Ex 14:11. In Marah, Ex 15:23,24. In the wilderness of Sin, Ex 16:2. At Rephidim, Ex 17:1,2 The golden calf, Ex 32:1-35. Then at Taberah. Then at Kibroth-Hattaavah, Nu 11:1-35. And so this was the tenth. Note, God keeps an account how often we repeat our provocations, and will sooner or later set them in order before us.
5. They had not hearkened to his voice, though he had again and again admonished them of their sin.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
The sentence passed upon them for this sin.
1. That they should not see the promised land (Nu 14:23), nor come into it, Nu 14:30. He swore in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest, Ps 95:11. Note, Disbelief of the promise is a forfeiture of the benefit of it. Those that despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their posterity, but not to them.
2. That they should immediately turn back into the wilderness, Nu 14:25. Their next remove should be a retreat. They must face about, and instead of going forward to Canaan, on the very borders of which they now were, they must withdraw towards the Red Sea again. To-morrow turn you; that is, "Very shortly you shall be brought back to that vast howling wilderness which you are so weary of. And it is time to shift for your own safety, for the Amalekites lie in wait in the valley, ready to attack you if you march forward." Of them they had been distrustfully afraid (Nu 13:29), and now with them God justly frightened them. The fear of the wicked shall come upon him.
3. That all those who had now grown up to men's estate should die in the wilderness, not all at once, but by degrees. They wished that they might die in the wilderness, and God said Amen to their passionate wish, and made their sin their ruin, snared them in the words of their mouth, and caused their own tongue to fall upon them, took them at their word,