Numbers 14:15

May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)

16He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as 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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