Numbers 14:37
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 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,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Read in contextNumbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Read in contextNumbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Read in contextHebrews 3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Read in contextJeremiah 29:32
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
Read in contextJude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Read in contextNumbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Read in contextJeremiah 28:16–17
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
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