Numbers 14:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:41 : 41 Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan Then you responded to me and admitted,“We have sinned against the LORD. We will now go up and fight as the LORD our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Judgment of Pretenders“Not everyone who says to me,‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven– only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day, many will say to me,‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them,‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
  • Matt 26:11-12 : 11 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me! 12 When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 14:41
    79%

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

  • Num 14:39
    78%

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

  • Exod 32:30
    77%

    30The next day Moses said to the people,“You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the LORD– perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin.”

  • Deut 1:40-41
    2 verses
    77%

    40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

    41Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan Then you responded to me and admitted,“We have sinned against the LORD. We will now go up and fight as the LORD our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

  • Exod 34:2
    76%

    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

  • Num 14:44
    75%

    44But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.

  • Deut 1:43
    74%

    43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • Num 14:26
    73%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 16:25
    73%

    25Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.

  • Exod 16:7
    73%

    7and 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?”

  • Exod 19:20
    72%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Exod 14:11
    72%

    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?

  • Judg 10:15
    72%

    15But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

    2And 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!

  • Exod 19:17
    72%

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Exod 24:15
    72%

    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

  • Exod 24:18
    72%

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 1:19
    72%

    19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • 1 Sam 14:10
    72%

    10But if they say,‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the LORD has given them into our hand– it will be a sign to us.”

  • Deut 1:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.

    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 14:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

  • Dan 9:15
    71%

    15“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

  • Num 32:14
    71%

    14Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.

  • Num 14:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Exod 24:13
    71%

    13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

  • Exod 19:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Num 16:12
    71%

    12Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said,“We will not come up.

  • Deut 2:1
    71%

    1The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness on the way to the Red Sea just as the LORD told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

  • Exod 14:1
    71%

    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 20:22
    71%

    22Aaron’s Death So the entire company of Israelites traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

  • Num 12:11
    71%

    11The Intercession of Moses So Aaron said to Moses,“O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

  • Deut 9:12
    71%

    12And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”

  • Exod 8:27
    71%

    27We must go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as he is telling us.”

  • Exod 16:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Num 16:41
    71%

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

  • Exod 19:23
    71%

    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

  • Num 13:17
    71%

    17The 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

  • Josh 22:18
    71%

    18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

  • Ps 78:17
    71%

    17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

  • Exod 24:9
    71%

    9Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

  • Deut 1:6
    70%

    6Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

  • Num 14:34
    70%

    34According 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.