Numbers 14:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

‘It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them that he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

Cross References

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.

Numbers 14:17

And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land from which you have brought us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”

Joshua 7:7

Joshua said, “Ah, Lord God! Why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all, to hand us over to the Amorites so as to destroy us? Would that we had been content to settle beyond the Jordan!

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your great name?”