American Standard Version
Numbers 14:28
28Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers 14:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
- New International Version (NIV)So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:
- English Standard Version (ESV)Say to them, 'As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
- New King James Version (NKJV)Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
Context of Numbers 14:28
26And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Read all of Numbers 14Numbers 14:28 word by word
אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם חַי־אָ֙נִי֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה אִם־לֹ֕א כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם בְּאָזְנָ֑י כֵּ֖ן אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
- Numbers 26:64But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Deuteronomy 1:35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
- Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Hebrews 3:17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Psalms 14:2Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.
Commentaries on Numbers 14:28
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan under the burden of their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28Israel’s disobedience brought on the consequences they feared would come from obeying.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-451. all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried--Not literally all, for there were some exceptions.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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