Numbers 14:22 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;”

Numbers 14:22

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And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

But {as} truly {as} I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: {Surely...: Heb. If they see the land}

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

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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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