Numbers 14:28

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

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In The King James Version

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

In Context

27How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

29Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

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Cross References

Numbers 14:21But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

Numbers 26:64But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 1:35Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

Psalms 90:8You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

Hebrews 3:17And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:21-36

God's Answer to Moses; The Israelites Threatened. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord . 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see… Read the whole commentary →

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