Numbers 14:41

And Moses says, “Why [is] this [that] you are transgressing the command of YHWH? For it does not prosper;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

In Context

40and they rise early in the morning, and go up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Here we [are], and we have come up to the place which YHWH has spoken of, for we have sinned.”

42do not go up, for YHWH is not in your midst, and you are not struck before your enemies;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:19and why have you not listened to the voice of YHWH—and fly to the spoil, and do evil in the eyes of YHWH?”

Job 4:9From the breath of God they perish, || And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.

Jeremiah 32:5and he leads Zedekiah [to] Babylon, and there he is until My inspecting him—a declaration of YHWH—because you fight with the Chaldeans, you do not prosper.”

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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