A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Numbers 14:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even those men who brought the evil report of the land died by a plague before the Lord. [Heb. 3:17-19; Jude 5-7.] American Standard Version (1901) even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah. Common English Bible These men died by a plague in the LORD’s presence on account of their false rumor. Catholic Public Domain Version suffered death and were struck down in the sight of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord. |
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have anyone living among this people to see the good that I am going to do to my people, says the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.
And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great size.
I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh alone remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.
Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!
The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let it live.”
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.
And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.