even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
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even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
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Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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- Numbers 16:49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10 Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
- Numbers 14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
- Hebrews 3:17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Numbers 25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
- Jeremiah 28:16-17 Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ” So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
- Jeremiah 29:32 therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”
- Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Either by the pestilence threatened Num 14:12, or by…
Either by the pestilence threatened Num 14:12, or by some other sudden and extraordinary judgment, sent from the cloud in which God dwelt, and from whence he spake to Moses, and wherein his glory at this time appeared before all the people, Num 14:10, who therefore were all, and these spies among the rest, before the Lord.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the…
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,.... Here Joshua is set first, as Caleb is in Num 14:30; which shows that they were equal in dignity, and therefore are indifferently put, sometimes the one first, and sometimes the other:
which were of the men that went to search the land; were two of the spies, and were for the tribes of Judah and Ephraim, Num 13:6,
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lived still; were not stricken with death, when the other spies were; though perhaps upon the very spot, and in the same place, and among them, when they were struck dead; but these remained alive, and continued many years after, and entered the good land, and possessed it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain By the plague - Either by the pestilence, or…
By the plague - Either by the pestilence, or by some other sudden and extraordinary judgment, sent from the cloud in which God dwelt, and from whence he spake to Moses, and wherein his glory at this time appeared before all the people, ver. 10, who therefore were all, and these spies among the rest, before the Lord.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 37. Those men that did bring up the…
Verse 37. Those men that did bring up the evil report - died] Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 14:37-38. By the plague — Either by the…
Num 14:37-38. By the plague — Either by the pestilence, or by some other sudden and extraordinary judgment, sent from the cloud in which God dwelt, and from whence he spake to Moses, and wherein his glory at this time appeared before all the people, (Num 14:10,) who therefore were all, and these spies among the rest, before the Lord. But Joshua and Caleb lived still — Death never misses his mark, nor takes any by oversight who were designed for life, though in the midst of those that are to die.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Lord, by pestilence, (ver. 12; Philo,) or by the…
Lord, by pestilence, (ver. 12; Philo,) or by the exterminating angel, 1 Corinthians x. 10. They were burnt to death before the tabernacle, or at least died suddenly. (Jansenius) The Jews have appointed a fast on the 7th of the 6th month, to bewail this event, ver. 39. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 37. By the plague — Literally, by the stroke.…
37. By the plague — Literally, by the stroke. Thus the Vulgate, percussi, SMITTEN in the presence of the Lord, they died. A sudden and fatal epidemic seized upon them in a supernatural manner, as is indicated by the words before the Lord, that is, immediately from Jehovah without the intervention of any second cause. Thus Israel received a practical proof of the awfulness of their sentence from the mouth of God. This solemn judgment, when publicly announced to the people by Moses, caused a vivid realization of the greatness of their guilt, and they mourned greatly.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. died by a plague] This is the meaning…
37. died by a plague] This is the meaning of the Heb. idiom, although the definite article is used. The Heb. maggçphâh denotes lit. ‘a smiting,’ as also do πληγή and plaga. It is used of any sudden catastrophe inflicted by Jehovah.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (37) By the plague.—The word maggephah, which is here…
(37) By the plague.—The word maggephah, which is here rendered plague, denotes a stroke. In Exo_9:14 it is used of the ten plagues of Egypt. In Num_16:48-49, it is used of the plague which broke out after the insurrection of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and in Num_25:9-18 of that which broke out after the Israelites had joined in the idolatrous and lascivious rites of the Moabites and Midianites. In 1Sa_4:17, 2Sa_17:9; 2Sa_18:7, it is used of destruction by the sword. It appears to denote in this place sudden death, inflicted by the immediate visitation of the Lord.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Died by the plague before the Lord. Septuagint, en…
Died by the plague before the Lord. Septuagint, en th plhgh . "Plague" has here its older signification of "stroke," or visitation of God. We are not told what death they died, but it was sudden and exceptional enough to mark it as the direct consequence of their sinful conduct.
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