Tree of Life Version
Numbers 14:28
28So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,’ says Adonai, ‘I will do to you just as I heard you say in My ears.
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
26Adonai then said to Moses and Aaron saying, 27“How long will this wicked community be grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of Bnei-Yisrael grumbling against Me. So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,’ says Adonai, ‘I will do to you just as I heard you say in My ears. 29In this very wilderness your bodies will drop—every one of you 20 years of age and older who was numbered in the census and grumbled against Me. 30Not one of you will enter the land about which I lifted My hand to make home for you—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 14:21But as certainly as I live and as certainly as the glory of Adonai fills the entire earth,
- Numbers 26:64Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the kohen when they counted Bnei-Yisrael in the Sinai wilderness,
- Numbers 32:11‘The men who came out of Egypt, from 20 years old and upward, will not see the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for they have not followed after Me with a whole heart—
- Deuteronomy 1:35‘Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give your fathers—
- 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 provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Psalms 14:2Adonai looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who 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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