Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, ‘Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.’
Numbers 14:12 - New International Version (Anglicised) I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.’ 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. |
Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, ‘Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.’
Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’
Then they said, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.’
‘ “Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws – by which the person who obeys them will live – and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.
And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.
The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.