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Numbers 14:37 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. "

Numbers 14:37

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35 I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

36 The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

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Numbers 13:32

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"They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature."

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Numbers 26:65

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"For the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun."

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Leviticus 18:27

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"(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),"

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Jeremiah 42:17

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"So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’"

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1 Chronicles 21:14

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"So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell."

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Psalms 91:7

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"A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you."

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From This Chapter

Numbers 14:1

"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."

Numbers 14:2

"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"

Numbers 14:3

"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"

Numbers 14:4

"They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”"

Numbers 14:5

"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."

Numbers 14:6

"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes."

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