Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
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Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
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Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
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Say unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 14:21 but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
- Hebrews 3:17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- 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 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
- Numbers 26:64-65 But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For Yahweh 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.
- Numbers 32:11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
- Deuteronomy 1:35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
- Psalms 90:8-9 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 14:28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I…
Num 14:28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Ver. 28. So will I do to you.] God took them at their words: so he may well do our desperate swearers, since the mercy they desire God to show is to damn them. This self-cursing seldom escapeth God’s visible vengeance: witness those Jews of old, who cried, "His blood be on us," &c., besides many others of late that might be instanced. Mr Perkins tells of certain English soldiers in King Edward VI’s time, who were cast upon the French shore by a storm, in which stress they went to prayer, that they might be delivered; but one soldier among the rest, instead of praying, cried out, Gallows take thy right, or claim thy due: when he came home he was hanged indeed. So was Sir Gervaise Ellowayes, Lieutenant of the Tower in King James’ time, whose usual word at his playing at cards and dice had been, as he sorrowfully confessed at the gallows, I would I might be hanged if it be not so or so. {a}
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{a} Looking glass for Malignants.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As you wickedly wished you might have died in…
As you wickedly wished you might have died in the wilderness, Num 14:2, I will bring your imprecations upon your heads.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness,.... They had…
Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness,.... They had wished they had died in it, Num 14:2, and the Lord here declares they should, which is signified by the falling of their carcasses in it, or their bodies, which when dead fall to the ground, having no strength to support themselves:
and all that were numbered of you: but a few months before this time, when their number was 603,550, Num 1:46,
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according to your number from twenty years old and upward; which is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to except the Levites, for they were not numbered with the other tribes; and when they were numbered by themselves, their number was taken from a month old and upwards; wherefore it need not be wondered at, if we find that there were of them who did not fall in the wilderness, but entered into the land of Canaan, as it is certain Eleazar the priest, the son of Aaron, did, Num 34:17,
which have murmured against me; which shows, that not the spies only, who caused the people to murmur, but the people themselves who murmured, and had been numbered, from twenty years old and upward, are the evil congregation the Lord thus threatened with death.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain As ye have spoken - When you wickedly wished…
As ye have spoken - When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 14:28-30. As ye have spoken — When you…
Num 14:28-30. As ye have spoken — When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness. To make you dwell — That is, your nation; for God did not swear to do so to these particular persons.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. as ye have spoken] i.e. in Num_14:2.
28. as ye have spoken] i.e. in Num_14:2.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (28) As ye have spoken in mine ears, so…
(28) As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do unto you.—The Israelites had exclaimed in their sinful murmuring against God, “Would God we had died in the wilderness” (Num_14:2); and God declares in His wrathful displeasure that the judgment which they had thus invoked should be inflicted upon them, and that their carcases should fall in the wilderness.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 as you have spoken in my hearing
as you have spoken in my hearing
"as I have heard you say"
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Your dead bodies will fall
Their dead bodies falling represents them dying. AT: "You will die" (See: Metonymy)
you who were counted in the census
This can be stated in active form. AT: "you whom Moses counted in the census" (See: Active or Passive)
from twenty years old and upward
"twenty years old and older"
translationWords
life
die
body
census
promise
Joshua
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:28 Israel’s disobedience brought on the consequences they feared…
14:28 Israel’s disobedience brought on the consequences they feared would come from obeying.
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