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Numbers 14:28
28So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:
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:
- 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:
- New Living Translation (NLT)Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.
Context of Numbers 14:28
26The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 27“How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: 29In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. 30Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:21Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth,
- Numbers 26:64Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
- Deuteronomy 1:35“No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- Hebrews 3:17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
- Psalms 14:2The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek 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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