Numbers 14:28

Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

World English Bible

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 shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

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Cross References

Numbers 14:21but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the LORD’s glory—

Numbers 26:64But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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

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

Hebrews 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it 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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