Numbers 14:35

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.””

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BSBPD

“I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; --in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 14:35 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 23:21Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
  2. Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
  3. Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  4. Numbers 26:65For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  5. Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  6. Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
  7. Ezekiel 20:36Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
  8. 1 Corinthians 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
  9. 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
  10. Hebrews 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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