Numbers 14:41
Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?
World English Bible
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In Context
42Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:19Why then didn’t you obey the LORD’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight?”
Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
Jeremiah 32:5and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says the LORD, “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will 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 →