Numbers 14:12

I'm going to make them sick with a disease and kill them. Then I will make you into a nation that's greater and stronger than they are.”

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In The King James Version

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

In Context

11The Lord told Moses, “How long are these people going to reject me? How long are these people going to refuse to trust in me despite all the miracles I have done right in front of them?

13But Moses told the Lord, “The Egyptians will find out about it! It was by your power that you led the Israelites out from among them.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:3“The God of the Hebrews came to us,” they added. “Please allow us to go a three-day journey into the desert and offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. Otherwise he'll kill us by disease or by the sword.”

Numbers 16:46Moses told Aaron, “Put some coals from the altar and some incense in your incense burner. Then run to the people and make them right before the Lord, for the Lord is angry with them and a plague has started.”

2 Samuel 24:1The Lord was angry with Israel, and he provoked David against them, saying, “go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

Ezekiel 20:13But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert, refusing to observe my laws and rejecting my regulations, even though they would have given them life. They violated my Sabbaths. So I warned them that I would punish them and wipe them out there in the desert.

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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