Numbers 14:36

And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

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In The King James Version

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,

In Context

35I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

37even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:4And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

Numbers 20:3And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

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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