Numbers 14:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

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  • Deut 9:28 : 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilrness.
  • Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 And hua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

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  • 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilrness.

  • 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

  • Num 32:10-11
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    10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,

    11 Surely 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:

  • 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

  • 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

    23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

  • Num 14:35-37
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    35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

    36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

    37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

  • Deut 2:14-15
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    14 And the space in which we came from Kash-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

    15 For ined the hand of the LORD was against them, to stroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • Deut 1:34-35
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    34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

    35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

  • Heb 3:17-18
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    17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

    18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

  • 51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kash, in the wilrness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Num 14:29-33
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    29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were mbered of you, according to your whole mber, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

    30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of n.

    31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

    32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

    33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

  • 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  • 11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

  • 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

  • 21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

  • 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of n.

  • 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

  • 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  • 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to liver us into the hand of the Amorites, to stroy us.

  • 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

  • Num 14:41-43
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    73%

    41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

    42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

    43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

  • 15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

  • 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

  • 41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

  • 13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

  • 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

  • 15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

  • 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

  • 14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

  • 3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

  • 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

  • 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.