Numbers 14:37 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people, nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to my people #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’
Then fire came from the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: ‘The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.’
Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.
Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.
The people quarrelled with Moses and said, ‘If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.
The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away from me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.’
And don’t grumble as some of them did, , and were killed by the destroyer. ,
Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.
With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with 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 disobeyed?
Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;