A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Numbers 14:37 - New International Version (Anglicised) these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a 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.
this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no-one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion against me.” ’
So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, ‘The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.’
Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.
They quarrelled with Moses and said, ‘If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord!
The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.’
And do not grumble, as some of them did – and were killed by the destroying angel.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.