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Numbers 14:28

in Numbers 14

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

KJV

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

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This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
We must also consider the words "as I live, says the Lord." Perhaps living in the proper sense, especially on the basis of what has been said about living, occurs with God alone. And see if the apostle … considered the superiority of the life of God to be beyond comparison and understood the words "as I live says the Lord" in a manner worthy of God. Can [he] for this reason have said of God, "Who alone has immortality," because none of the living beings with God has the life which is absolutely unchangeable and immutable?

This site's exposition

as ye have spoken in mine ears

on Numbers 14:28-30

The sentence is their own words returned to them, and the verse says so before it says anything else. They had wished to die in this wilderness at verse 2, and verse 29 gives it back as your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. Every man numbered from twenty years old and upward is included, with Caleb and Joshua named as the two exceptions, which is exactly what Numbers 26:64-65 reports at the end of the forty years.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The frequent repetitions of the same things in it speak these resolves to be unalterable. Let us see the particulars. The extremity of the sentence is receded from (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens

Say unto them, as truly as I live, saith the Lord,.... The form of an oath, as in Num 14:21, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you; what they had wished for, and expressed in the hearing of the Lord, he threatens them should be their case.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֱמֹ֣רsay

    ʾemorH559 →5305 times

  • אֲלֵהֶ֗םto them

    ʾalehemH413 →5510 times

  • חַי־[by] [the] life

    chai-H2416 →498 times

  • אָ֙נִי֙of me

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • לֹ֕אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖םyou have spoken

    dibartemH1696 →1141 times

  • בְּאָזְנָ֑יin ears my

    beazenaiH241 →187 times

  • כֵּ֖ןso

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥הI will do

    ʾeesehH6213 →2628 times

  • לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you

    lakhem

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,10 worksHebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?5 worksRomans 14:11It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”5 worksNumbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!4 worksEzekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’4 worksNumbers 14:23not 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.3 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,3 worksNumbers 26:64–65Among 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.3 worksPsalms 90:8–9You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.2 worksNumbers 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—2 worksJeremiah 44:26Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 14:21

    “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

    it leads to

    • Habakkuk 2:14

      For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

    • Psalms 72:19

      And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

  • Through

    Hebrews 3:17

    And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:29

      Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

    • Numbers 14:22

      not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

    • Jude 1:5

      Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

    • Numbers 26:64–65

      Among 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 14:32–33

      As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

  • Through

    Numbers 14:23

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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,…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 14 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.123.

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