Numbers 14:15

Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,

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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 tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

16'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, he has killed them in the wilderness.'

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Cross References

Judges 6:16Yahweh said to him, “I will be with you, and you will defeat the entire Midianite army 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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