Numbers 14:41
And Moses said, Why do ye now transgress the commandment of LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
42Do not go up, for LORD is not among you, that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:19Why then did thou not obey the voice of LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of LORD?
Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Jeremiah 32:5And he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him, says LORD. Though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:37-45
Death of the Evil Spies. ( b. c. 1490.) 36 And 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, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord . 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned… Read the whole commentary →