Numbers 14:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Numbers 14:5 —

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Numbers 16:4
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Numbers 16:45
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Topics

Aaron Armies Consecration Courage Cowardice Disobedience to God Doubting Fear

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

The friends of Israel here interpose to save them if possible from ruining themselves, but in vain. The physicians of their state would have healed them, but they would not be healed; their watchmen gave them warning, but they would not take warning, and so their blood is upon their own heads. I. The best endeavours were used to still the tumult, and, if now at last they would have understood the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces--as humble and earnest suppliants--either to the people, entreating them to desist from so perverse a design; or rather, to God, as the usual and only refuge from the violence of that tumultuous and stiff-necked rabble--a hopeful means of softening and impressing their hearts.