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>"muh anything I don't like much less understand must be Jewish"
>Matthew Henry is a jew because I don't understand hard concepts or cannot believe what I am reading in the Bible
very poor quality b8
>God murdered all the Hebrew males except for Joshua and Caleb because I don't know my Bible
How new are you to this Christianity thing? Cuz this smella a lot like you read some shi- on the atheist bible site and are now faith-spiraling out of control
And given that's no sin, why in the flames of tartarus are you chimping-out about things you haven't read properly?!
Matthew Henry is a perfectly valid, Godly, non-gadolig, puritan, commentator of the Bible who, while working from imperfect text and limited resources is trying to illuminate the truth of God.
>Did God really murder all the males except for Joshua and Caleb?
Yes.
Just like he "murdered" your Grandmother with that cancer thing. Now THAT'S speculating!!
< The text: Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
< God rescues Israel from Egypt
< Israel spergs out against God, constantly complaining Moses led them into the desert to die
< God gets jack of their faithlessness and finally says, "Right, that's it, the lot of you will all die before any of you gets into the land I have prepared for you. Your sons and daughters can take possession."
< Israel wanders in the desert for forty years until almost every one of (((that generation))) is dead …
< … of natural causes …
< … and mountain lions Now THAT'S speculating!!
Conclusion: every adult male (only they counted back in those days) in the census who escaped Egypt would be deaded.
>Literally all of his 'commentary' is just winnie the pooh off-topic speculation.
No.
No it is not. It is perfectly ON TOPIC.
He is seeking to remind you the CAUSE for all this, to remind you that while you may mourn for a million people who died in the desert, they died natural deaths JUST AS EVERYONE DOES. He explains the parallels to you and I, how we all die, how this is all God's righteousness, and how we should hate sin and cling to Christ because of it.
>The execution of the sentence passed on the murmurers, chap. 14:29, is observable.
ie; go back and read Num 14:29 for God's passing sentence on the Israelites
>There was not one man numbered now, who was numbered then, but Caleb and Joshua. Here appeared the righteousness of God, and his faithfulness to his threatenings. Especially observe the truth of God, in performing his promise to Caleb and Joshua.
God pronounced judgement; God made it come to pass; hoorah for God.
>Death makes awful havoc of the human species, and causes surprising changes in families and nations; yet all is appointed in perfect wisdom, justice, and truth, by the Lord himself.
Death sucks, and this was a punishment for sinfulness, so then:
>This should stir us up to think upon the hateful nature of sin, the cause of all these devastations.
So, we should:
>We should renew our repentance, seek forgiveness, value the salvation of Christ, remember how frail we are, prepare for the summons of death, and fill up our days in serving our generation according to the will of God.
What's hard about this?
Heck, you ought to read the non-concise edition text where Henry reeeaaally pulls this idea apart, how God was righteous to do this, yet still kept His promise to Abraham.