Numbers 14:39

When Moses told the Israelites what the Lord had said they were very, very sad.

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In The King James Version

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

In Context

38The only ones who lived were Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh of those who went to explore the country.

40They got up early the next morning planning to go into the hill country. “Yes we really did sin,” they said, “but now we're here and we'll go where the Lord told us.”

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:3People mess up their lives by their own stupidity, and then get angry with the Lord.

Matthew 8:12But the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into utter darkness where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”

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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