Numbers 14:15

And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

14Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

16Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he swore to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord shall be with thee, and thou shalt smite Midian 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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