Numbers 14:41

And Moses said, Wherefore now do all of you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

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And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

In Context

40And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.

42Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that all of you be not smitten before your enemies.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:19Wherefore then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

Job 4:9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Jeremiah 32:5And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says the LORD: though all of you fight with the Chaldeans, all of you shall 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 →

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