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I. THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO HIS THREATENINGS. The judgment which God pronounced thirty-eight years previous He has now completely fulfilled (cf. Numbers 14:11-39).

1. The immense number of the condemned does not avail for the escape of any one of them. Sentence was passed upon upwards of six hundred thousand men; "and there was not left a man of them." "Though hand join in hand," &c (Proverbs 11:21).

2. The lapse of time before the complete execution of the sentence does not avail for the escape of any one. Thirty-eight years passed away before the judgment pronounced was fully carried out; but ultimately not one upon whom it was passed escaped.

II. THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO HIS PURPOSES.

III. THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO HIS PROMISES. He promised to spare Caleb and Joshua, and to bring them unto the promised land (Numbers 14:23-30); and He spared them, and in due season brought them into that land.

(W. Jones.)

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KJV: These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

WEB: These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.