Numbers 14:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 9:28 : 28 Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
  • Josh 7:9 : 9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed. 27 But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 Joshua prayed,“O, Sovereign LORD! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us? If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan!

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 9:28
    79%

    28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

  • Num 14:15
    77%

    15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

  • Num 32:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Josh 5:6
    76%

    6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

  • Num 20:12
    76%

    12The Lord’s Judgment Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,“Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”

  • Num 14:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • Num 14:35-37
    3 verses
    76%

    35I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

    36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

    37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

  • Deut 2:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.

    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • Deut 1:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

    35“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

  • Heb 3:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

  • Deut 32:51
    75%

    51for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

  • Num 14:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

    29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

    30You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

    31But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.

    32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

    33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:15
    74%

    15I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

  • Exod 14:11
    74%

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • Ps 106:26
    74%

    26So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,

  • Deut 4:21
    74%

    21But the LORD became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

  • Num 26:65
    73%

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

  • Deut 1:37
    73%

    37As for me, the LORD was also angry with me on your account. He said,“You also will not be able to go there.

  • Num 14:11
    73%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 14:17
    73%

    17So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,

  • Num 14:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

    42Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

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

  • Num 20:4
    73%

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Num 32:15
    73%

    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Num 20:24
    72%

    24“Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

  • Num 16:41
    72%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 32:13
    72%

    13So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    72%

    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

  • Deut 3:26
    72%

    26But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

  • Judg 2:15
    72%

    15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

  • Num 14:39
    71%

    39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

  • Jer 2:6
    71%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Heb 3:11
    71%

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

  • Num 27:14
    71%

    14For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

  • Num 14:3
    71%

    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it 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 an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

    11So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”