Numbers 14:23
What does Numbers 14:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 14:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
KJV
King James Version · 1611Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
Context
v.22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
v.23This passage
v.24but 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Nehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Psalms 106:26
Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
- Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Psalms 95:11
Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
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