Numbers 14:28

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

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In The King James Version

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

In Context

27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Numbers 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:21-36

God's Answer to Moses; The Israelites Threatened. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord . 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see… Read the whole commentary →

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