Numbers 14:37
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.”
36 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—
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.
39 And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
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
- those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- KJV
- Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- WEB
- even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- ASV
- even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
- DARBY
- even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
- BLB
- those very men who brought an evil report about the land died by the plague before the face of YHWH.
- ÅB
- disse menn, som hadde talt ille om landet, ble slått ned for Herrens åsyn og døde.
- OTB
- disse mennene som var ansvarlige for å spre den negative rapporten om landet ble slått ned og døde av en pest for Herren.
- B1930
- disse menn, som hadde talt ille om landet, blev slått ned for Herrens åsyn og døde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 10:10
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
Read in contextNumbers 16:49
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
Read in contextNumbers 14:12
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
Read in contextHebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read in contextJeremiah 29:32
this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
Read in contextJude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
Read in contextNumbers 25:9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Read in contextJeremiah 28:16–17
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
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