Numbers 14:15

As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak saying:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

14And will tell it unto the inhabitants of this land: They have heard, That, thou, Yahweh, art in the midst of this people,—That eye to eye, is he seen—thou, Yahweh, And thy cloud, is standing over them, And in a pillar of cloud, thou thyself, art going on before them by day, And in a pillar of fire, by night.

16Because Yahweh, was not able, to bring in this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, therefore did he slay them in the desert.

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Cross References

Judges 6:16And Yahweh said unto him—I will be with thee,—so shalt thou smite the Midianites, 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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