Numbers 14:26-38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 26-38

Numbers 14:26-Zechariah : (P). The Condemnation of the People to Forty Years’ Wanderings in the Wilderness.— This passage comes from P, being parallel to, but divergent from, 11– 25, for both Joshua, and Caleb (not the latter alone, as in Numbers 14:24) are exempted from the sentence of exclusion ( cf. Numbers 14:6). The subsequent history assumes that exemption was extended to Eleazar also (see Numbers 32:28, Joshua 14:1; Joshua 24:33).

Numbers 14:31 . know: read (with LXX), “ inherit.”

Numbers 14:33. wanderers: better (with mg.), “ shepherds” (living as nomads and not as occupiers of land).— forty years: a conventional figure equivalent to a generation ( cf. Judges 3:11; Judges 5:31).— whoredoms: i.e. acts of mistrust (not of idolatry, as usual, Ezekiel 23:11, Hosea 2:5).

Numbers 14:37 . the plague.— Paul, who alludes to the occurrence in 1 Corinthians 10:10, substitutes “ the destroyer,” thus attributing the infliction of the plague to an angelic agent (as is done in the case of the pestilence sent to punish David’ s offence in 1 Chronicles 21:12; 1 Chronicles 21:15).

Numbers 14:39-Romans : . An Abortive Invasion of Canaan.— This comes from JE.

Numbers 14:40 . the mountain: cf. Numbers 13:17.

Numbers 14:44 . the ark: this was wont to accompany the army as a palladium: cf. Numbers 10:35 f .

Numbers 14:45 . Hormah: afterwards reckoned in the territory of Judah or of Simeon ( Joshua 15:30; Joshua 19:4).

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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