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Numbers 14:15 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, "
Numbers 14:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among
14 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.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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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."
Numbers 14:6
"And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:"
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