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Numbers 14:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier "
Numbers 14:12
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But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
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Numbers 14:1
"Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping."
Numbers 14:1
"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:2
"And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!"
Numbers 14:3
"And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"
Numbers 14:4
"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us 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."
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