New King James Version
Numbers 14:28
28Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will 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 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
26And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
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
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Cross-references for Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:21but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord—
- Numbers 26:64But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
- Deuteronomy 1:35‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
- Hebrews 3:17Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
- Psalms 14:2The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, 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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