Numbers 14:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 9:28 : 28 Lest the land from which you brought 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 has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
  • Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your 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 misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you 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 of Jordan!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 9:28
    79%

    28Lest the land from which you brought 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 has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:15
    77%

    15Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

  • Num 32:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10And the LORD's anger was kindled at that time, and he swore, saying,

    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

  • Josh 5:6
    76%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 20:12
    76%

    12And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."

  • Num 14:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22Because all those men who 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 listened to my voice;

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

  • Num 14:35-37
    3 verses
    76%

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

    36And 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,

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

  • Deut 2:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14And the time we took to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from the camp, as the LORD swore to them.

    15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.

  • Deut 1:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

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

  • Heb 3:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

  • Deut 32:51
    75%

    51Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Num 14:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

    29Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

    30Surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

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

    33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:15
    74%

    15Yet also I lifted up my hand to 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;

  • Exod 14:11
    74%

    11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

  • Ps 106:26
    74%

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

  • Deut 4:21
    74%

    21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:

  • Num 26:65
    73%

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

  • Deut 1:37
    73%

    37Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, You also shall not go in there.

  • Num 14:11
    73%

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

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 14:17
    73%

    17And now, I beseech you, let the power of my Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

  • Num 14:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

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

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

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

  • Num 20:4
    73%

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Num 32:15
    73%

    15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

  • Num 20:24
    72%

    24"Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.

  • Num 16:41
    72%

    41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.

  • Num 32:13
    72%

    13And 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    72%

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

  • Deut 3:26
    72%

    26But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me; and the LORD said to me: Enough! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

  • Judg 2:15
    72%

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

  • Num 14:39
    71%

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

  • Jer 2:6
    71%

    6Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no one lived?

  • Heb 3:11
    71%

    11So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

  • Num 27:14
    71%

    14For you rebelled against my command in the desert of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: this is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

  • Num 14:3
    71%

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Num 16:14
    71%

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

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