Numbers 14:37
What does Numbers 14:37 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 14:37 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
Context
v.36And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
v.37This passage
v.38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 25:9
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Jude 1:5
Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
- Numbers 16:49
Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
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