Numbers 14:15

now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

14they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16And the LORD said unto him: 'Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites 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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