Numbers 14:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.”
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“not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:”
King James Version · Public Domain“surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 14:23 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
- Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
- Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- Jeremiah 18:10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
- Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
- Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
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