A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Numbers 14:37 - English Standard Version 2016 the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before 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. |
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: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live.”
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.