12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. …
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)Here is, I. The righteous sentence which God gave against Israel for their murmuring and unbelief, which, though afterwards mitigated, showed what was the desert of their sin and the demand of injured justice, and what would have been done if Moses had not interposed. When the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle we may suppose that Moses took it for a call to him immediately to come and a…
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