Numbers 14 (NET)

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Numbers 14:1¹Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:45 Num 11:1-4

Numbers 14:2²And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 15:24 Exod 17:3 Num 16:41 1 Cor 10:10 Exod 16:2-3 Jude 1:16 Num 14:27-29 Phil 2:14-15 Deut 1:27 Jonah 4:3

Numbers 14:3³Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:3 Num 14:31-32 Ps 78:40

Numbers 14:4⁴So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:39 Neh 9:16-17 Deut 17:16 Luke 17:32 Deut 28:68 Heb 11:15 2 Pet 2:21-22 Heb 10:38-39

Numbers 14:5⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:4 Num 16:22 Num 16:45 1 Chr 21:16 Ezek 9:8 Gen 17:3 Josh 5:14 Lev 9:24 1 Kgs 18:39 Dan 10:9

Numbers 14:6⁶And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 13:30 Num 14:30 Gen 37:29 Gen 37:34 Num 13:6 Num 13:8 Num 14:38 2 Kgs 18:37 2 Sam 3:31 Gen 44:13

Numbers 14:7⁷They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 13:27 Deut 1:25 Deut 6:10-11 Deut 8:7-9

Numbers 14:8⁸If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land that is flowing with milk and honey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 22:20 Isa 62:4 Num 13:27 Deut 10:15 Ps 147:10-11 Rom 8:31 1 Kgs 10:9 Ps 22:8 Zeph 3:17 Jer 32:41

Numbers 14:9⁹Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:18 Deut 31:6 Rom 8:31 Ps 74:14 2 Chr 20:17 2 Chr 32:8 Deut 31:8 Num 24:8 Josh 1:5 Deut 20:1-4

Numbers 14:10¹⁰However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 17:4 1 Sam 30:6 Lev 9:23 Exod 16:10 Exod 16:7 Matt 23:37 Num 16:19 Num 16:42 Num 20:6 Acts 7:52

Numbers 14:11¹¹The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:32 Ps 106:24 Ps 78:22 Deut 1:32 Deut 9:22-23 Ps 78:41-42 Heb 3:8 John 12:37 Num 14:23 Num 14:27

Numbers 14:12¹²I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them—I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 32:10 2 Sam 24:1 Num 16:46-49 Num 25:9 2 Sam 24:12-15 Exod 5:3

Numbers 14:13¹³Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear it—for you brought up this people by your power from among them—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:23 Deut 32:27 Exod 32:11-14 Ezek 20:9 Deut 9:26-28 Ezek 20:14 Josh 7:8-9

Numbers 14:14¹⁴then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 15:14 Deut 5:4 Exod 13:21-22 Exod 33:11 Neh 9:12 Exod 40:38 Gen 32:30 John 1:18 Josh 2:9-10 Josh 5:1

Numbers 14:15¹⁵If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 6:16

Numbers 14:16¹⁶‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 9:28 Josh 7:7 Josh 7:9 Deut 32:26-27

Numbers 14:17¹⁷So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 9:6 Matt 9:8 Mic 3:8

Numbers 14:18¹⁸‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 34:6-7 Ps 145:8 Exod 20:5 Jonah 4:2 Nah 1:2-3 Ps 103:8 Mic 7:18 Deut 5:9 Eph 1:7-8 Jer 23:2

Numbers 14:19¹⁹Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 34:9 Ps 78:38 Ps 106:45 Exod 32:32 Jonah 4:2 Ps 51:1-2 1 John 5:14-16 1 Kgs 8:34 Dan 9:19 Exod 32:10-14

Numbers 14:20²⁰Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 7:18-20 Jas 5:16 Ps 106:23

Numbers 14:21²¹But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:14 Ps 72:19 Isa 6:3 Deut 32:40 Isa 49:18 Matt 6:10 Ezek 18:3 Ezek 33:11 Ezek 5:11 Zeph 2:9

Numbers 14:22²²For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me —Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 19:3 Exod 32:1 Gen 31:7 Heb 3:17-18 Ps 106:26 Deut 1:31-35 Exod 17:2 1 Cor 10:5 1 Cor 10:9 Exod 14:11

Numbers 14:23²³they will by no means see the land that I promised on oath to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 32:11 Num 26:64 Ezek 20:15 Deut 1:35-45 Heb 3:17-18 Heb 4:3 Neh 9:23 Ps 106:26 Ps 95:11

Numbers 14:24²⁴Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully—I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 14:6-14 Num 14:6-9 Acts 11:23 Deut 1:36 Eph 6:6 Num 32:11-12 Num 13:30 Num 26:65 1 Chr 29:18 1 Chr 29:9

Numbers 14:25²⁵(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:40 Num 13:29 Num 14:4 Prov 1:31 Ps 81:11-13

Numbers 14:26²⁶The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 14:27²⁷“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:12 1 Cor 10:10 Exod 16:28 Mark 9:19 Num 14:11

Numbers 14:28²⁸Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:21 Heb 3:17 Num 14:2 Num 14:23 Num 26:64-65 Deut 1:35 Num 32:11 Ps 90:8-9

Numbers 14:29²⁹Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness—all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 1:45 1 Cor 10:5 Heb 3:17 Num 26:64 Jude 1:5 Num 14:32-33

Numbers 14:30³⁰You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:36-38 Gen 14:22 Num 14:38 Num 26:65 Num 32:12

Numbers 14:31³¹But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:39 Ps 106:24 Num 14:3 Num 26:6 Num 26:64 Acts 13:41 Gen 25:34 Heb 12:16-17 Matt 22:5 Prov 1:25

Numbers 14:32³²But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:5 Num 14:29 Heb 3:17

Numbers 14:33³³and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 23:35 Num 32:13 Deut 2:14 Ps 107:40 Deut 1:3 Ezek 23:45-49 Hos 9:1 Jer 3:1-2 Josh 14:10 Num 33:38

Numbers 14:34³⁴According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days—one day for a year—you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:6 Num 13:25 Jer 18:9-10 Dan 9:24 1 Sam 2:30 2 Chr 36:21 Deut 31:16-17 Heb 4:1 Ps 95:10 Zech 11:10

Numbers 14:35³⁵I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 23:19 1 Cor 10:5 Heb 3:19 Num 26:65 1 Cor 10:11 Num 14:27-29

Numbers 14:36³⁶The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 13:31-33 Num 13:4-16

Numbers 14:37³⁷those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:10 Num 16:49 Heb 3:17 Num 14:12 Jer 28:16-17 Jer 29:32 Jude 1:5 Num 25:9

Numbers 14:38³⁸But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 14:6-10 Num 26:65

Numbers 14:39³⁹When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 33:4 Heb 12:17 Matt 8:12 Prov 19:3 Isa 26:16

Numbers 14:40⁴⁰And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, for we have sinned.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:41 Eccl 9:3 Luke 13:25 Matt 7:21-23 Matt 26:11-12

Numbers 14:41⁴¹But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:20 Jer 2:37 Jer 32:5 Job 4:9 Num 14:25

Numbers 14:42⁴²Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:42 Josh 7:12 Josh 7:8 Ps 44:1-11

Numbers 14:43⁴³For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 15:2 Num 13:29 Num 14:25 1 Chr 28:9 Deut 28:25 Hos 9:12 Isa 63:10 Judg 16:20 Lev 26:17

Numbers 14:44⁴⁴But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:43 1 Sam 4:3-11 Num 10:33 Num 15:30 Num 31:6

Numbers 14:45⁴⁵So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:3 Deut 1:44 Judg 1:17 Num 14:43 Deut 32:30 Exod 17:16 Josh 7:11-12 Josh 7:5