Numbers 14:36
The 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,
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- Num 13:4-9 : 4 Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; 5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 11 from the tribe of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; 15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
- Num 13:31-33 : 31 But the men who had gone up with him said,“We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying,“The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature. 33 We even saw the Nephilim there(the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”
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- Num 14:37-415 verses85%
37 those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
39 When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
40 And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying,“Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD commanded, for we have sinned.”
41 But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
- Num 14:26-272 verses77%
26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.
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2 The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”
- Num 13:25-262 verses75%
25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
26 The Spies’ Reports They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
- Num 14:29-313 verses75%
29 Your 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.
30 You 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.
31 But 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.
- Num 14:34-352 verses74%
34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
35 I, 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!”’”
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27 You 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 32:7-93 verses73%
7 Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the LORD has given them?
8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9 When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.
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2 And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!
- Num 14:22-232 verses73%
22 For 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,
23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
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32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying,“The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.
- Num 14:10-112 verses72%
10 However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
11 The 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?
- Num 14:6-72 verses72%
6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.
7 They said to the whole community of the Israelites,“The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.
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16 ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
- Deut 1:34-352 verses72%
34 Judgment 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!
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1 Spies Sent Out The LORD spoke to Moses:
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22 So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”
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3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
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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,
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17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
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17 The Spies’ Instructions When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them,“Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country
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24 They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.
25 They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.
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14 For 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.”
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16 In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.
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3 But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
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16 Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!
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7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”
8 Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”
9 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”
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24 So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
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24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.
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13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses: