Numbers 14:37

Numbers 14:37 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Context of Numbers 14:37

35I, the Lord, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’” 36As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and led all the congregation to grumble against him by bringing a bad report about the land, those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the Lord. 38But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land. 39Now when Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

Numbers 14:37 word by word

וַיָּמֻ֙תוּ֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים מוֹצִאֵ֥י דִבַּת־הָאָ֖רֶץ רָעָ֑ה בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• those menאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• who broughtיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: speakH3318
• the badרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: harmfulH7451
• reportדִּבָּהdibbâh · slanderH1681
• of the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• also diedמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• plagueמַגֵּפָהmaggêphâh · plagueH4046
• in the presenceפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Numbers 14:37

• Numbers 14:12I will strike them with plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
• Numbers 16:49But those who died by the plague were 14,700 in number, besides those who died on account of Korah.
• Numbers 25:9But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
• Jeremiah 28:16Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I am going to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to die, because you spoke falsely against the Lord.’”
• Jeremiah 29:32therefore this is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am going to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am going to do for My people,” declares the Lord, “because he has spoken falsely against the Lord.”’”
• 1 Corinthians 10:10Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.
• Hebrews 3:17And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
• Jude 1:5Now I want to remind you, though you know everything once and for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

Commentaries on Numbers 14:37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37Those men that did bring up the evil report died - Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 36-39Verses 36-39 Here is the sudden death of the ten evil spies. They sinned in bringing a slander upon the land of promise. Those greatly provoke God, who misrepresent religion, raise dislike in men's minds toward it, or give opportunity to those to do so, who seek occasion. Justly are murmurers made mourners. If they had mourned for the sin, when they were faithfully reproved, the sentence had been prevented; but as they mourned for the judgment only, it…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-38Twelve spies explored the fertile land of Canaan and found strong enemies defending it. Earlier chapters show Israel's disobedience, hinting at future failures. The Israelites did not have the obedience, courage, or faith to capture the land. So, the Lord made them spend 40 years in the Wilderness of Sinai. That generation did not receive their inheritance in the promised land.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 36-3836-38. those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord--Ten of the spies struck dead on the spot--either by the pestilence or some other judgment. This great and appalling mortality clearly betokened the hand of the Lord.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 14:37

• Decision
• Holy Spirit
• Israel
• Judgments
• Murmuring
• Plague
• Reprobacy
• Sin
• Unpardonable Sin

In the dictionaries

• Ammiel
• Caleb
• Exodus
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• Waste
• Agrapha
• Chronicles, Books of
• Exodus, the Book of

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