Numbers 14:36
34 In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
37 those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
- KJV
- And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
- WEB
- The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- ASV
- And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- DARBY
- And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
- BLB
- And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made complain all the congregation against him by bringing a bad report of the land—
- ÅB
- De menn som Moses hadde sendt for å utspeide landet, og som var kommet tilbake og hadde fått hele menigheten til å knurre mot ham ved å tale ille om landet,
- OTB
- Så mennene Moses hadde sendt for å utforske landet, som vendte tilbake og fikk hele menigheten til å klage mot ham ved å spre en negativ rapport om det—
- B1930
- De menn som Moses hadde sendt for å utspeide landet, og som var kommet tilbake og hadde fått hele menigheten til å knurre mot ham ved å tale ille om landet,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 13:31–33
But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
Read in contextNumbers 13:4–16
and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
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