Numbers 14:42
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.”
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“Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 14:42 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 1:42But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
- Joshua 7:8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- Joshua 7:12This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
- Judges 16:20Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
- 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
- Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Psalms 44:10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
- Psalms 89:43You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
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