Numbers 14:41

And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

In Context

40And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

42Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:19Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?

Job 4:9By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Jeremiah 32:5And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?

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 →

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