Numbers 14:13-24

“And Moses said unto the Lord. . .” (v. 13). Moses was responding to that which the Lord announced in verse 12. The Lord stated that He would smite the unbelieving children of Israel with pestilence, disinherit them, and make a great nation of Moses.

This is not the first occasion on which the Lord proposed making a great nation of Moses. When Israel turned from the Lord at the mount in Sinai…