Numbers 14 · Verse 25

Numbers 14:25

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers 14:25, King James Version

Numbers 14:25 in other translations

BSBNow since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
WEBSince the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
ASVNow the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
YLT‘And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness--the way of the Red Sea.'
DARBY(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
BBENow the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.
Webster(Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and pass into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea.

What does Numbers 14:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley)--that is, on the other side of the Idumean mountain, at whose base they were then encamped. Those nomad tribes had at that time occupied it with a determination to oppose the further progress of the Hebrew people. Hence God gave the command that they seek a safe and timely retreat into the desert, to escape the pursuit of those resolute enemies, to whom, with their wives and children, they would fall a helpless prey because they had forfeited the presence and protection of God. This verse forms an important part of the narrative and should be freed from the parenthetical form which our English translators have given it.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 14:20-35

The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan…

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Numbers 14:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהָֽעֲמָלֵקִ֥יve.ha.'a.mal.Kiand the Amalekite[s]H6003
וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖יve.ha.ke.na.'a.Niand the Canaanite[s]H3669
יוֹשֵׁ֣בyo.Shev[was] dwellingH3427
בָּעֵ֑מֶקba.'E.mekin the valley[s]H6010
מָחָ֗רma.ChartomorrowH4279
פְּנ֨וּpe.NuturnH6437
וּסְע֥וּu.se.'Uand set outH5265
לָכֶ֛םla.Khemfor <the> yourselves
הַמִּדְבָּ֖רha.mid.Barthe wildernessH4057
דֶּ֥רֶךְDe.rekh[the] way ofH1870
יַם\־yam-[the] sea ofH3220
סֽוּף\׃\ \פSufreed[s]H5488

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Cross references for Numbers 14:25

  • Deuteronomy 1:40

    But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Numbers 13:29

    The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

  • Numbers 14:4

    And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

  • Psalms 81:11-13

    But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

  • Proverbs 1:31

    Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the Amalekites.
13:29
turn you.
4; De 1:40; Ps 81:11-13; Pr 1:31

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Context

  • Numbers 14:24

    But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

  • Numbers 14:25

    (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Numbers 14:26

    And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

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Numbers 14:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Ahora bien, el Amalecita y el Cananeo habitan en el valle; volveos mañana, y partíos al desierto, camino del mar Bermejo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Or l’Amalékite et le Cananéen habitent dans la vallée: demain tournez-vous, et partez pour le désert, vous dirigeant vers la mer Rouge.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Amalekiter aber und die Kanaaniter wohnen in der Niederung; morgen wendet euch und brechet auf nach der Wüste, des Weges zum Schilfmeer.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quoniam Amalecites et Chananæus habitant in vallibus. Cras movete castra, et revertimini in solitudinem per viam maris Rubri.