Thematic Bible
Numbers 14:1 (show verse)
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
Numbers 14:2 (show verse)
All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:3 (show verse)
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4 (show verse)
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
Numbers 14:5 (show verse)
Numbers 14:6 (show verse)
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
Numbers 14:7 (show verse)
and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Numbers 14:8 (show verse)
Numbers 14:9 (show verse)
Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
Numbers 14:10 (show verse)
Numbers 14:11 (show verse)
Numbers 14:12 (show verse)
I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Numbers 14:13 (show verse)
Numbers 14:14 (show verse)
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for You, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers 14:15 (show verse)
Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Numbers 14:16 (show verse)
‘Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
Numbers 14:17 (show verse)
But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,
Numbers 14:18 (show verse)
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’
Numbers 14:19 (show verse)
Numbers 14:20 (show verse)
So the Lord said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;
Numbers 14:21 (show verse)
but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Numbers 14:22 (show verse)
Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
Numbers 14:23 (show verse)
Numbers 14:24 (show verse)
But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.
Numbers 14:25 (show verse)
Numbers 14:26 (show verse)
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
Numbers 14:27 (show verse)
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.
Numbers 14:28 (show verse)
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;
Numbers 14:29 (show verse)
Numbers 14:30 (show verse)
Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 14:31 (show verse)
Numbers 14:32 (show verse)
Numbers 14:33 (show verse)
Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:34 (show verse)
According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.
Numbers 14:35 (show verse)
Numbers 14:36 (show verse)
Numbers 14:37 (show verse)
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.
Numbers 14:38 (show verse)
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
Numbers 14:39 (show verse)
When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
Numbers 14:40 (show verse)
In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.”
Numbers 14:41 (show verse)
But Moses said, “Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed?
Numbers 14:42 (show verse)
Numbers 14:43 (show verse)
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not be with you.”
Numbers 14:44 (show verse)
But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp.
Numbers 14:45 (show verse)
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.