Numbers 14:16

World English Bible (2000)

'Because Yahweh 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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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 9:28 : 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to 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 will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"
  • Josh 7:7 : 7 Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 9:28
    79%

    28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'

  • Num 14:15
    77%

    15 Now if you killed 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%

    10 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,

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

  • Josh 5:6
    76%

    6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 20:12
    76%

    12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

  • Num 14:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

    23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

  • Num 14:35-37
    3 verses
    76%

    35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."

    36 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

    37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

  • Deut 2:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

    15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

  • Deut 1:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

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

  • Heb 3:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

  • Deut 32:51
    75%

    51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Num 14:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

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

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

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

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

    33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:15
    74%

    15 Moreover also I swore 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%

    11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

  • Ps 106:26
    74%

    26 Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

  • Deut 4:21
    74%

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

  • Num 26:65
    73%

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

  • Deut 1:37
    73%

    37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there:

  • Num 14:11
    73%

    11 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 14:17
    73%

    17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

  • Num 14:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41 Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

    42 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

    43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."

  • Num 20:4
    73%

    4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

  • Num 32:15
    73%

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

  • Num 20:24
    72%

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

  • Num 16:41
    72%

    41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

  • Num 32:13
    72%

    13 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    72%

    5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Deut 3:26
    72%

    26 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, "Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.

  • Judg 2:15
    72%

    15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

  • Num 14:39
    71%

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

  • Jer 2:6
    71%

    6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • Heb 3:11
    71%

    11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

  • Num 27:14
    71%

    14 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

  • Num 14:3
    71%

    3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • Num 16:14
    71%

    14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up."

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

    11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."