Numbers 14:28

Therefore say thou to them, (As) I live, saith the Lord; as ye spake while I heard, so I shall do to you;

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

27How long groucheth this worst multitude against me? I have heard the grouching plaints of the sons of Israel. (How long grumbleth this worst multitude against me? I have heard all the grumbling and the complaints of the Israelites.)

29your carrions, or dead bodies, shall lie in this wilderness. All ye that be numbered, from twenty years and above, and have grouched against me, (all your corpses shall lie here in this wilderness. All ye who be listed, or registered, from twenty years of age and older, and have grumbled against me,)

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Cross References

Numbers 14:21And as soothly (as) I live; and the glory of the Lord shall be filled in all [the] earth; ( But as truly as I live, the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth;)

Numbers 26:64among which none of them was that were numbered before of Moses and Aaron, in the desert of Sinai; (and there was not one among them who had been registered by Moses and Aaron before, in the Sinai Desert;)

Deuteronomy 1:35None of the men of this worst generation shall see the good land, which I promised under an oath to your fathers,

Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our wickednesses in thy sight; our world in the lightening of thy cheer. (Thou hast set our wickednesses before thee; our secret sins in the full light of thy face.)

Hebrews 3:17But to whom was he wrathed forty years? Whether not to them that sinned, whose carrions were cast down in (the) desert? (But by whom was he angered for forty years? Whether not by those who sinned, whose carcasses were thrown down in the desert?)

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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