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Numbers 14:35

in Numbers 14

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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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Their fathers had such a value for Canaan that they desired to have their dead bodies carried thither to be buried, in token of their dependence upon God's promise that they should have that land for a possession: but these, having despised that good land and disbelieved the promise of it, shall not have the honour to be buried in it, but shall have their graves in the wilderness.

This site's exposition

I will surely do these things

on Numbers 14:35-38

The ten men who brought the report die first, by plague, before any of the forty years begins. The text charges them with bringing up a slander upon the land, so the offence is what they said about a place.

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 (

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The words behind it

18 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.

  • אֲנִ֣יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָה֮Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • דִּבַּרְתִּי֒I have spoken

    dibartiH1696 →1141 times

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • לֹ֣א׀not

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • זֹ֣אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֗הI will do

    ʾeesehH6213 →2628 times

  • לְכָל־to all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֵדָ֤הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • הָֽרָעָה֙<the> evil

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • הַנּוֹעָדִ֖יםwhich has gathered

    hanoadimH3259 →29 times

  • עָלָ֑יon me

    ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times

  • בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רin the wilderness

    bamidbarH4057 →270 times

  • הַזֶּ֛ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • יִתַּ֖מּוּthey will meet their end

    yitamuH8552 →63 times

  • וְשָׁ֥םand there

    veshamH8033 →834 times

  • יָמֻֽתוּ׃they will die

    yamutuH4191 →839 times

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

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 23:19

    God 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?

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 15:29

      Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

    • James 1:17

      Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

    • Malachi 3:6

      “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

    • Hebrews 6:18

      Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

    • Titus 1:2

      in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

  • Through

    1 Corinthians 10:11

    Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

    it leads to

    • Romans 15:4

      For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

  • Through

    1 Corinthians 10:5

    Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

    it leads to

    • 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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?

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.