The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and he stirred up David against them to say, ‘Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.’
Numbers 14:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they. American Standard Version (1901) I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. Common English Bible I’ll strike them down with a plague and disown them. Then I’ll make you into a great nation, stronger than they.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is. |
The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and he stirred up David against them to say, ‘Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.’
Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’
They answered, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.’
‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and they rejected my ordinances #– #the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned my Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.
I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.
The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.