Numbers 14:15

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

In Context

14And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

16Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:12-20

The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 13 And Moses said unto the Lord , Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of… Read the whole commentary →

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