Numbers 14:37
Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 14:12I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
Numbers 16:49Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.
Numbers 22:33And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.
Psalms 91:7You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
Jeremiah 29:32For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.
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 14:37-45
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 →