Numbers 14:15

That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner,

Leeser Tanakh

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 when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;—

16That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16And the Lord said unto him, Because 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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